Eddie Lott is a Dallas-based songwriter in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign to fund the recording of his first studio-produced album, Blame It on My Wild Soul. Normally, I don’t cover artists before their work is a finished product, […]
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The No-Hit Wonder, the fourth album (second on Chicago’s Bloodshot Records) from Memphis-bred, Nashville-based veteran Cory Branan, is the kind of album that somehow manages to pack punches full of maturity, wit, heartache, and tenderness with such consistency and genre-defying […]
The origin story of Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery is pivotal for an appreciation of Powell’s music. The name, inspired by the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery, the first silent western committed to celluloid, evokes Powell’s affinity […]
There’s an unmissable serendipity blanketing the ten songs that comprise the debut LP from Overseas, a collaboration between music heavyweights Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), David Bazan (Pedro the Lion, Headphones), and brothers Matt Kadane and Bubba Kadane (The […]
The Beach is the third solo album from acclaimed St. John’s, Newfoundland songwriter Chris Picco, an honest lyricist with considerable charm who also fronts Newfoundland’s The Long Distance Runners. Having formed LDR, a red-blooded rock and roll outfit rallying around […]
Any folk-pop fans fearing a lack of fruitful ideas left to mine can take solace in the eccentric beauty of Toronto-based Beams’ Just Rivers. The Canadian septet fronted by Anna Mérnieks offers such a dizzying array of bouncy arrangements that you’d […]
If there’s one thing that has held true with all the music I’ve adored the longest, it is great songs – rock, country or pop – never go out of style. Sorry, economists: there is no law of diminishing returns […]
John Fullbright instantly became one of the most exciting songwriters and performers around, irrespective of genre designations, when he splashed on to the radar in 2012 with his tremendous debut album, From the Ground Up. Then 24 years old (he […]
Ivan & Alyosha are a Seattle four-piece who play an enchanting brand of harmonic, folk-leaning rock with swelling choruses. Their songs beg to be sung in unity, and they benefit from a comfortable, earnest romanticism that hits home on the […]
Chicago trio Fort Frances visited Indianapolis on Saturday night for a celebratory set on the heels of the release of their excellent, new Harbour EP, freshly out on Tuesday. New to the band, I’d been truly delighted to have both […]
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