Laura Marling’s latest album, Patterns in Repeat, was inspired by the birth of Marling’s daughter and the singer-songwriter’s initiation into motherhood, but still covers broad thematic ground. Throughout the venture, Marling reflects on her life and the world into which […]
Four albums in, Soccer Mommy (the moniker of Sophie Allison) is pulling off a kind of magic trick by staying true to who she’s always been. Evergreen is the same intimate bedroom indie rock that first drew fans into her […]
Chattanooga native Amythyst Kiah’s sophomore album, Wary + Strange, functions like an emotional exorcism: 41 minutes of grunge-tinged folk, bluesy and anguished on some tracks, proclamatory in others, but altogether intended to unburden Kiah of the grief she has carried […]
The scary side effect of really getting to know yourself is the sudden inability to be anything but honest. Liv Greene has learned that in the sweetest way, spinning self-awakening into the golden-hued songs that make up her second album […]
From the opening notes of Brenna MacMillan’s debut solo album Dear Life, her authenticity shines through. The album is a collection of original songs, which opens with the autobiographical “What’s to Come?” revealing, “I grew up Kentucky born – Texas […]
Eric Bibb is an old smoothie. Since his debut with ’72’s Ain’t It Grand, Bibb’s flight path has been a swooping glide that has him soaring aloft with mellow, folky ruminations on the state of the world and his place […]
Joy Oladokun has some things she needs to say. The charismatic folk-pop artist, whose website describes her as “first generation daughter of Nigerian immigrants and proud queer Black person,” has seen her profile rise dramatically in recent years, thanks in […]
As the legacy of Fleetwood Mac expands to a new generation, the pre-Mac release from arguably its two most iconic members has taken on a near-mythic status. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s 1973 debut LP Buckingham Nicks was largely unheralded […]
Amy Speace creates landscapes of the human heart in her songs through her exquisite use of words and images. On her ninth album, The American Dream, Speace shines a light into the corners of our lives where we hide hopes […]
It seems Flamy Grant has been defined more by her media controversy than her music. This is unjust but understandable – these days, a country music-slinging Christian drag queen is bound to draw ire from all the wrong people. But, […]
