by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Chance Emerson – A Different Dark
Currently attending Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Chance Emerson got his start in Asia. Born in Taiwan to a Taiwanese mother and an American father, Emerson grew up in Hong Kong before traveling to the States and pursuing music.…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Jonathan Wilson – Dixie Blur
Over the course of his first three solo albums, Jonathan Wilson has immersed himself in the Laurel Canyon groove. Hanging out in LA with the likes of David Crosby, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, Wilson made records steeped…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return
Approximately every twenty-nine and a half years Saturn returns to the location it was at when a person was born. The significance of this cannot be overstated because it also highlights a shift in a woman when she experiences an…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Rose Cousins – Bravado
Technology has created an age of isolation, where we are tethered to other humans by our connections to screens of cell phones and computers, Rose Cousins uses Bravado to take a look at love and romance in this complicated landscape.…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Agnes Obel – Myopia
Agnes Obel doesn’t take the easy roads. Myopia is the latest example of that, with her taking a short-sighted approach to creating her music, she notes, “For me the production is intertwined with the lyrics and story behind the songs ……
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Peggy Sue – Vices
Vices. Sometimes they can feel so good, but you know they’re usually wrong. That’s pretty much how Katy Young and Rosa Slade had grown to feel about some of the music they were making as Peggy Sue. Which is why,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Julie Amici & Dean Mueller – ‘Daddy’
Julie Amici & Dean Mueller run the roots gamut on their upcoming album, I Loved You So. Nestled comfortably in the soles of old-school Americana, the kind of music that they create transports listeners into home-sewn stories of family, life,…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Frazey Ford – U Kin B The Sun
Frazey Ford is one of those artists you would happily listen to singing the proverbial phone book. You’d be unlikely to make out any of the names or addresses, but her rich voice, clearer in its emotion than its enunciation,…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Alex Rex – Andromeda
Some records you listen to because you are drawn to them like a moth to a flame. Andromeda by Alex Rex is just such a record. It is a descent into the dark recesses of a man who has seen…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | The Lone Bellow – Half Moon Light
Connections are at the heart of what makes The Lone Bellow so special, and on Half Moon Light the bonds are everywhere. Opening the record, ‘Intro’ features Zach Williams’ grandmother playing piano at the funeral of her husband of sixty-four years. This family connection…