Singer-songwriter Drew Kennedy’s eighth album, At Home In The Big Lonesome, was not an easy undertaking. The first day of recording at Sony Tree in Nashville, his manager, Scott Gunter,…
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This musical collective, The Pinkerton Raid, from Durham, North Carolina, offers up their third album, Tolerance Ends, Love Begins and it is a thoughtful and interesting mix of pop, rock,…
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This sixth album from Charleston, South Carolina’s Dangermuffin, is a revelation. Heritage is a fine, warm piece of work and it makes me wonder how I haven’t heard of this…
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Norman, Oklahoma native Travis Linville has been around for twenty years and for all intents and purposes, this latest album – his fifth – Up Ahead could be the magic…
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The first thing you notice upon first listen to Shadowlands, the newest release from Minnesota’s Romantica, is the quiet and understated beauty and finessed compositional structures in the songwriting. This…
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This quartet who call Brooklyn home are not what one would expect from the borough’s “indie scene”; rather, they’ve got their own interesting thing happening. Girls On Grass’ debut album,…
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Not new to any scene; in fact, been missing in action for over a decade, Freakwater return with their new album, Scheherazade. A crushing, 12-track collection, this album sees and…
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Call it what you will – “alt country”, “americana” and any amount of hyperbole, but Jared Rabin’s debut solo album, Something Left To Say, is wonderful. This Chicago singer-songwriter, who…
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Nearly a decade removed from Ryan Adams’s most prolific year, when he released three full-lengths over seven months (while leaving countless other recordings in the vaults), it can often seem a…
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It makes me feel good to know that there is this whole new crop of musicians from the mid-West releasing quality music. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing many of…
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