On the HBO comedy special 2 Dope Queens, comedian Naomi Ekperigin says about the current state of America: “If America was a character in a movie … what we’re dealing with, this would be the part in the movie where […]
On the HBO comedy special 2 Dope Queens, comedian Naomi Ekperigin says about the current state of America: “If America was a character in a movie … what we’re dealing with, this would be the part in the movie where […]
Heather Maloney will not be put into a box. She makes that abundantly clear from the start of her fourth full-length album, Soil in the Sky. Bursting from the somnolent instrumental opener “Waking Up From A Nightmare,” the Massachusetts-based artist […]
Dawn Landes’ My Tiny Twilight EP bloomed out of the “exhaustion, bewilderment, and pure love” that followed the birth of her daughter. This collection of six folk songs — the follow-up to the Nashville-based singer/songwriter’s 2018 LP Meet Me at the […]
Tree of Shade, the fifth release from New York-based band Driftwood, has a restless spirit. On the album’s ebullient opener “CalifornIA,” Dan Forsyth proclaims, “I’ve got a train station in my mind,” and from there, listeners are whisked off onto […]
At some point most of us go through a period when the meaning of home becomes unclear. Often it comes after you move away from where you grew up: Suddenly your childhood home doesn’t feel like home, but neither does […]
The title of the sophomore album from Lula Wiles, What Will We Do, lacks a question mark, a detail that feels intentional. The title is taken from the traditional folk song “What Will We Do When We Have No Money?”, […]
The title of the sophomore album from Lula Wiles, What Will We Do, lacks a question mark, a detail that feels intentional. The title is taken from the traditional folk song “What Will We Do When We Have No Money?”, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Before the flood of new releases begins in 2019, we’re looking back at some releases from last year that we didn’t get a chance to write up when they were released. Jennifer Castle’s Angels of Death was released in May. Death […]
Empty Handed, the debut full-length record from Dutch singer-songwriter Christof van der Ven, was a decade in the making. During that decade, van der Ven’s home base changed from the Netherlands to Ireland to the UK, he toured extensively with […]
When two people come together to make tones so dulcet that it becomes difficult to do anything else but listen, you know that you are experiencing something very special. This is the effect that Brooklyn-based twins Adam and David Moss […]