On Everything Is Alive, Darlingside explores the human condition, and especially the collision with impermanence so many of us experience. On these songs, they sing of one of life’s only constants, change, but also the unease it can cause, offering […]
In the last nearly 25 years, Josh Ritter has produced an oeuvre defined by thoughtful metaphors that ring truer than truth, all while expressing the constant sense that he is searching for something bigger than the self, and maybe bigger […]
There are two kinds of sirens: warnings and invitations. Trapper Schoepp has filled his new album, Siren Songs, with a wide variety of them, including the calls of good and frightening love, the sea’s terrible lure, and even the sirens […]
It’s easy to imagine Mat Davidson (the man behind Twain) as an itinerant philosopher who writes music instead of essays, soft examinations of being instead of arguments about what’s true. His songs ripple with a quiet search for and appreciation […]
When Harlan Howard first called country music “three chords and the truth,” he never could have predicted how those three chords would transform into something as ringing and rowdy as it is rugged and righteous. Kendell Marvel is the embodied […]
Frank Solivan found himself in a hard place, personally, right before the world slowed down, and suddenly the world gifted him the time and space to process everything he was going through. He settled into his writing for both escape […]
We live in a world so full of flashing lights, so saturated with constant busyness, that it can feel impossible to slow down enough to pay attention, to listen to the world, to ourselves. With No Regular Dog, Kelsey Waldon […]
Everything changes. Nothing changes. As an itinerant songwriter settled into Chicago in 2007, Joe Pug recorded Nation of Heat in the space of others’ canceled sessions, carrying only a guitar, a harmonica, and his voice. It was necessarily a sparse […]
Nostalgia roughly translates from Greek to mean “suffering to return,” a deep and intense yearning for what was. Welcome 2 Club XIII isn’t a nostalgic record. With Welcome 2 Club XIII, The Drive-by Truckers — Patterson Hood (guitar, vocals), Mike […]
It is a rare thing for the world to give us a chance to process our grief, to contemplate how time has marked us and colored our lives. On True North, Caroline Spence explores the impact that grieving can have […]
