A couple years ago, Aimee Mann was brought on board to write the music for the theatrical adaptation of Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir of her experiences living in a mental institution in the 1960s (you may remember the […]
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Buffalo Nichols ain’t messing around. The blues and folk music started as outlets for Black voices and stories, and singer-songwriter Nichols is determined to bring that experience back to those musical forms. The first stop on that quest is his […]
Never let it be said that Jason Isbell doesn’t keep his promises. Back in November 2020, Isbell promised to record a cover album of songs from Georgia-born artists if the electoral results from the Peach State came out in favor […]
Not to sound like Emily Dickinson or even Wednesday Addams over here, but life is impermanent. You’re alive and then, one day, you aren’t. What’s left is your legacy and the impact you had on others. You likely don’t need […]
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first time Daptone Records started marching to the beat of its own funky drummer. To celebrate, the imprint on Friday is releasing its Super Soul Revue, a distillation of a three-night […]
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, […]
Props to Anderson East. With his first two albums, Delilah and Encore, he carved out a niche for himself at the nexus point of late-’60s, Stax Records-indebted soul and introspective alt-country. Anchored by a malleable voice that can alternate between […]
What’s even in a name, anyways? For a decade, Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin recorded and performed under the name Mandolin Orange. Under that moniker, the duo cultivated a successful career in the folk circuit for themselves and their very […]
Summer. It’s the ideal time to get down and get funky. Of course, you need the right set of tunes for that. Enter Durand Jones and the Indications with the fantastic, groovalicious new LP Private Space. Led by co-lead vocalists […]
You can always count on Los Lobos to do it right. Few bands have managed to absorb as diverse a range of influences and process them into their own original sound quite as skillfully, successfully, or for as long as […]
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