Sometimes you have to change things up, and when the pandemic struck Darlingside had to figure out a new way to work, resulting in Everything Is Alive. The old ways of recording simply wouldn’t work, and with Don Mitchell, Auyon…
Allegra Krieger keeps throwing you for a loop, and every time you think you have her figured out, you haven’t a clue, which is what makes I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane such a fascinating experience. You think…
At 70, Lucinda Williams is a survivor, but Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart only tells half the tale. During the pandemic she lost her home in a tornado. If that wasn’t enough, she had a debilitating stroke months…
Making a record can be a frustrating experience, it can take forever to record and along the way the magic is lost. Finding the magic was at the heart of Holler, The Watson Twins’ new album. Recorded in a matter…
Jason Isbell is an honest man, and his new album with the 400 Unit, Weathervanes, offers an unflinching look at the modern world with a sense of honesty one rarely sees. And like any honest man, he views himself and…
Ghosts seem to haunt every second of Hannah Rose Platt’s Deathbed Confessions. Inhabiting a widescreen wonderland, Platt creates a landscape filled with both the horror and humor that haunts listeners. Her voice, a surprisingly flexible instrument, shades these recordings in…
Residing in a neighborhood where Captain Beefheart and 70s AM radio not only coexist but share the same turntable, Tim Rutili’s band Califone examines the strange landscape of villagers. It is, to say the least, an interesting trip, one where…
Ceremony seems to suggest formality, yet Tiny Ruins new album is far less formal than the title suggests. Hollie Fullbrook wrote the album during walks with her dogs along the turbulent landscape of “Old Murky” – Tāmaki Makaurau’s (aka Auckland’s)…
Esther Rose has lived a bit of a nomadic existence, and now living in Santa Fe, after stays in Columbiaville, Michigan; and New Orleans, Safe to Run suggests that trading places has had a certain appeal. It’s as if she…
Sometimes things just don’t fit. Angel Olsen had that problem with ‘Nothing’s Free’, the first track from her new EP, Forever Means. Soulful in a way that the other songs on Big Time weren’t, it became obvious it wouldn’t make…