Cover songs and Metallica go together like black denim and whiskey. Early on in their 40-year career, the Bay Area thrashers put together their infamous The $5.98 EP — Garage Days Re-Revisited, which features covers of some of their favorite tracks from […]
Over a 40-plus-year career, David Ferguson has engineered projects for Johnny Cash, John Prine, and Sturgill Simpson, among other luminaries. Now producing and contributing lead vocals to his own album, Nashville No More, the Grammy Award-winning Ferguson is supported by […]
Like many artists have been forced to do because of the pandemic, Peter Mawanga and Trevor Bystrom collaborated remotely for their debut musical project, an EP titled Mawanga & Bystrom. But it wasn’t as simple as swapping tracks cross-country. In […]
Aaron Dessner is showing no signs of slowing down. After working on back-to-back albums with Taylor Swift in 2020, the founding member of The National is back with yet another release, this time with his buzzy Big Red Machine project, […]
That old saying about looking back in order to move forward may seem clichéd, but for roots rock mainstay Tim Easton, there’s some truth to it. His latest record, You Don’t Really Know Me, finds him coming out of some […]
“Is it all over now?” Della Mae singer and acoustic guitarist Celia Woodsmith asks on “These Songs,” the opening track on the band’s first post-vaccination collaboration, Family Reunion, and it’s a question many of us have been asking of late. […]
Tré Burt released his first LP, Caught It From the Rye, in January 2020. Inspired by Oh Boy labelmate and hero John Prine, it established Burt as a singer-songwriter with a bright future ahead of him. With You, Yeah, You, […]
Southern Avenue is seizing the moment. The band’s new album, Be the Love You Want, encourages listeners to do the same. Few artists are as well-positioned for such a serious leap in mainstream attention as Southern Avenue in this post-pandemic […]
What happens when five of the very best musicians in the world — among them they have backed up everyone from James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Stevie Nicks, and Jackson Browne, among many others — get together in the […]
Lost Futures, the debut collaborative album by guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler, takes its name from an idea formulated by the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher. The concept’s cynical premise is a system of knockback, where ambitions, hopes, and […]
