Let me start off by saying, this album is a sleeper. At first listen, it strikes you as an uncomplicated collection of slightly quirky songs… until you really start to hear the lyrics. Then the deception is over, and you […]
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October 14, 2014, saw the release of the second album by San Franciscoʼs M. Lockwood Porter, 27. There was a good amount of expectation for this album, following great reviews of last yearʼs Judahʼs Gone and a spring release of the […]
Jp Harris and the Tough Choices released their follow-up to 2012’s possibly perfect record, I’ll Keep Calling, with Home Is Where the Hurt Is. It is the finest country album I’ve heard this year, hands down — no bullshit, straight to […]
Mike (MC) Taylor brings forth his fifth full-length record under the Hiss Golden Messenger moniker, on Merge Records, Lateness Of Dancers, released September 9, 2014. The usual suspects are all accounted for — William Tyler handles some lead guitar work, […]
Monday, September 29, 2014, will see the release of the second joint-effort from Denver, Colorado-based poet/artist Charly Fasano, and Memphis mainstays Lucero — a 7” vinyl and accompanying book titled Retrospect/ed. The record features Fasano reading his poems “Gasoline Fumes” and “Teddyʼs Bowling Alley” to the music […]
Documenteer, Aric Allen, sent over this impressive mini-documentary on Woody Guthrie’s 1937 travails in the city of lost angels, Los Angeles, California. And just how, “Woody Guthrie tumbled west down Route 66 to make it in California. Within two months […]
On August 12, 2014, Holy Ghost Electric Show released its debut full-length album, The Great American, on what may be becoming my favorite record label, This Is American Music. It comes on the heels of 2012’s EP, Fire on the Mountain, […]
July 17, 2014 saw the release of Christopher Gold’s fourth album, When the Buzzards Leave the Bones. This is one of the most compelling and moving collections of songs I’ve heard in a while — intricate folk melodies paired with […]
Jeffersonville, Indianaʼs, Nick Dittmeier released his second album, Light Of Day, on April 22, 2014. Dittmeier cut his teeth in the punk rock scene before switching gears in 2006 with his alt-country band Slithering Beast. In 2013, he went solo with the four-song EP Extra […]
After 16 years of touring and rocking their way across the US and Europe, Memphis-based seven piece (sometimes eight with Glossary’s Todd Beene on pedal steel guitar) Lucero has finally released a live record. It captures the rapture that any […]
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