With his new album, Mahashmashana, Josh Tillman, a.k.a. Father John Misty, backburners the vintage ambiance of his last album, 2022’s Chloë and the Next 20th Century. Instead, Misty revisits the social commentary and reflections on loss that pervaded 2017’s […]
You are not altogether sure what you are listening to when you fire up Father John Misty’s new album, Chloë and the Next 20th Century: Apart from his mellifluous voice, which runs throughout, the tracks are all so very different. […]
Whether you love him or hate him, there is no denying that the prolific Father John Misty is a masterful songwriter who we’re never quite sure if we understand. After some public meltdowns in 2016, and 2017’s exhaustive, sprawling record […]
Listening is inevitably a subjective process. That said, I do my best to practice suspending or expanding my default filters in order to be more receptive to forms of aesthetic excellence that might not be congruent with my preferences. For […]
Put aside the dumpster fire that consumed national news this year, and you have to admit it was actually a pretty good year … for music. After all, artists exist to comment on and respond to the world around them, and […]
What do Sheryl Crow, Sean Rowe, and Father John Misty all have in common? Well, sonically, almost nothing aside from (maybe) attending the same Big Tent Americana genre party — and even that’s a tenuous connection. Instead, these three artists, […]
Fear Fun, J Tillman’s debut under the moniker Father John Misty, brims with wry anecdotes, mordant commentaries on contemporary life, and a pop awareness that balances philosophic inquiry with hummable and primetime-friendly hooks. I listened to Tillman’s well-received follow-up, I […]
Welcome to the ND Roundup! This is where we’ll be sharing weekly news from around the roots music world. Are you prepared to talk politics at the dinner table this Thanksgiving? Me neither! Let’s look at the headlines instead. Nikki […]
The Spanish Gothic United Artists Building, the current Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, was the perfect setting for the Vidiots Foundation’s inaugural Harry Dean Stanton Award – presented to its nonagenarian namesake Sunday evening as the first in an […]
Driving around Austin, Texas, today, I was suddenly struck by an epic wave of nostalgia. I was transported to the Portland, Oregon, of my youth … staring out a second story window, watching rain drizzle onto dark, wet concrete through […]
