Drew Holcomb’s steady songcraft has slowly but surely charted a course toward an expansive sound since he first arrived with his band, The Neighbors, nearly 15 years ago. His latest album, Dragons, follows suit with an anthemic album that maintains […]
It’s hard to make sense of everything that’s happening right now. Well, maybe that’s not quite the right way to say it — we are living under a fascist regime, plain and simple. But it’s confusing and there are a […]
Was a time when you could reliably count on 99% of holiday-themed new releases being awful. Lifeless rehashes of “Jingle Bells,” oversentimental and instantly forgettable originals, and pop-ified “reimaginings” of classics that were just made for background noise to forced […]
The Piedmont plateau region stretches across the Eastern Seaboard from Alabama, through Virginia, and up toward New Jersey. That’s where an old form of blues comes from, and the theme of a new collection from Smithsonian Folkways. As our own Grant […]
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors are ready to bring a little sweetness into your life. They have done it before with past releases, but this time, we might just need it more. On […]
Every year, thousands of independent musicians take to crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or PledgeMusic to secure the money needed to record or release their new project directly from the fans. Increasingly, these platforms have also become popular with more established […]
