Jobi Riccio is restless on her alt-country debut LP. As she navigates the rocky terrain of young adulthood, the Morrison, Colorado-born, Nashville-based artist has felt like a mountain and a mouse. She’s damn lonely under the summer sun. She’s learning […]
In an interview published last year in The Advocate, Mya Byrne spoke about how coming out as trans has impacted her music: “When people come out, not only is it a political act, it’s also modeling for other people what […]
If you live in a big city and spend most of your day staring at a computer, you likely harbor the dream of moving to the country, someplace where the pace is a bit slower and you can finally hear […]
It has been an exciting and busy two years for Miko Marks. In early 2021, Marks released her third LP, Our Country, and followed it up later that year with a covers EP, Race Records (ND review). She was selected […]
The inspiration behind Lissie’s fifth album, Carving Canyons, was a double whammy: a break-up during the pandemic. Lissie was “broken open,” to borrow the words she sings on the title track, and she spent time grieving, healing, and strengthening her […]
Have you ever looked in the mirror and not recognized yourself? Does the question “Who am I?” make you dizzy with panic? This uncertainty and the coupled loneliness are what Luke Sital-Singh is processing on his latest album, his fourth, […]
Inside Problems is a record built from tangled sheets and night sweats. The relentlessly inquisitive Andrew Bird takes fevered late night/early morning thoughts and turns them into songs. Across Inside Problems he seeks reassurance and answers to both big and […]
Having toured the world steadily for the past eight years, Mama’s Broke — Halifax, Nova Scotia-based folk duo Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria — are road warriors. Narrow Line, the follow-up to their 2017 debut album, Count the Wicked, […]
Whenever “cinematic” is used to describe a piece of music, more often than not it’s because of the dramatic tenor of a string section. Alegoría, Gaby Moreno’s latest album, her seventh, has a cinematic quality to it, but not because […]
Molly Tuttle has bluegrass in her blood. Thanks to her father and grandfather, she grew up listening to the genre and attending bluegrass festivals. Tuttle always had the desire to make a full-length bluegrass record, and after two largely folk-rock […]
