Adopting a fresh moniker – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory – Van Etten and company embrace their most collaborative venture, crossing the lush sonics of 2019’s Remind Me Tomorrow and the sober confessionalism of 2022’s We’ve Been […]
To listen to Swimming, the new album by Sam Moss, is to be confronted by beautiful contradictions. Moss and his ensemble spin a gossamer web of instrumentation around Moss’ earthy voice, at once hopeful and a deliverer of weary wisdom. […]
Will Oldham is no stranger to collaborative endeavors. But unless specifically noted otherwise —the 2022 Blind Date Party team-up with BIll Callahan and Superwolves with Matt Sweeney, for example—his releases under the Bonnie “Prince” Billy moniker are solo endeavors, consisting of material conceived and […]
Jim White and Trey Blake present a layered composition in their intriguing project, Precious Bane. As complex as the music itself is, the album will require some context. White is an Americana outsider, “discovered” by David Byrne in the ‘90s […]
Pat Kearns likes to tell stories. On the first Kearns Family album, the Mojave Desert resident unspools stark tales of cursed outsiders and sentimental fools with an empathetic touch, presenting these dusty sagas without passing judgement or romanticizing tough […]
What happens when you get everything you dreamed of, when you find love and a comfortable place to land? For Lilly Hiatt, a lot of loud guitars, fuzz and distortion of the garage rock variety. The sound of Forever, […]
John Mailander’s latest album Let The World In is the third in a trilogy that began with Forecast, his 2019 solo project. Mailander was so taken with the dynamics between the musicians on that solo album that he wanted to […]
When they finished recording their album, Looking For The Thread, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Karen Polwart, and Julie Fowlis, along with their producer and musicians, switched off the studio lights, lay down on the floor and listened to their creation. […]
The title of Roger Street Friedman’s fifth album, Long Shadows, nods to the gloominess that often casts itself over our lives. For Friedman, those shadows may darken our lives for a while but, as he illustrates in many of […]
At just 17, Ty Myers has earned nearly three million monthly Spotify listeners, signed with Columbia records, and sold out a headlining tour. Press play on his debut LP, The Select, and it quickly becomes clear why he has connected […]
