There’s an unerring sense of both comfort and vision in the music country singer Laura Cantrell has made over the last two decades. The singer came up in the New York City alt-country scene of the late 1990s and early […]
At the best of times, music brings people together from all walks of life in the pursuit of a good time, and that’s the philosophy driving Strangers No More, the new record from Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors. It’s there […]
There’s this popular meme featuring Michael Fassbender as Magneto in the 2011 flick X-Men: First Class. I’ll spare you the full context behind it, but the image features Fassbender simply saying “Perfection.” That image provides a near-perfect summation […]
When the chorus hits almost two minutes into “King of Oklahoma,” the second track on Weathervanes, the new Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit album, it’s like an unexpected release of tension you didn’t know you needed. It proves once […]
If you want a heaping plate full of twang, let Sara Petite be your server. With her original roots planted in a tulip farm in Sumner, Washington, the self-proclaimed rhubarb pie capitol of the world, Petite developed a taste for […]
The Wikipedia entry for Ben Harper lists eight genres he’s associated with. A stylistic nomad, Harper roams freely on his new album, Wide Open Light, finding a genre to fit the needs of the song rather than writing a song […]
With 2019’s While I’m Livin’, her first new album in 17 years, Tanya Tucker declared to the world that she was ready to ride her stallion down Broadway, Nashville’s main drag, once more. That album, co-produced by Brandi Carlile and […]
Written in 2021 during the COVID epoch, while the Timmins family was navigating their father’s worsening dementia, Such Ferocious Beauty unflinchingly addresses impermanence and the ways we strive to find meaning and connection. While Cowboy Junkies draw from the bluesy […]
A full decade has passed since “Aces,” an early single from the Stansall brothers, Rupert and Henry, born in Scunthorpe, England, first turned the heads of tastemakers at BBC Music. The retro sound stood proudly on the shoulders of their […]
Some musicians are poets, exploring the human condition in rhyme. Others are storytellers, writing 3 ½-minute short fiction with fully fleshed-out characters and the kind of fine details expected of a novelist. On What Matters Most, Ben Folds proves himself […]
