Ex-Shins keyboardist Marty Crandall started Sad Baby Wolf as perhaps a sardonic metaphor to post-dismissal blues from the last-standing Shin, James Mercer, in 2009 — and the results are equal parts intriguing and encouraging. Crandall, alongside his younger…
Grand. Epic. Powerful. There is almost no shortage of words you can use to describe the towering achievement that is Eluvium’s—a.k.a. Matthew Cooper—latest release, Nightmare Ending. A double album of massive proportions that is almost completely free…
John Denver’s music used to be a guilty pleasure of mine. Now that respected singers and songwriters like Kathleen Edwards, Lucinda Williams and Brandi Carlile have covered his music on The Music Is You: a Tribute to…
Jordan Jeffares, the man behind Snowden, is probably bracing himself for the deluge of critics eager to remind him that the first song on his debut album, Anti Anti, implied that he could walk and talk “like bullets.” Yet…
Tegan Quin and her twin sister Sara have succeeded in cutting a record that is another strong entry into their catalog and the danceable, indie rock canon. The tunes deal with breakups, heartache and hearthrobbing, in a vein that…
When Kim Richey first started releasing albums in the mid-90s, she came off like the female equivalent to Steve Earle. There was an energy and intensity to her songs that could be likened to Earle’s rock-charged take on country…
I’d been misremembering Kiss Each Other Clean (2011), the most recent full- length Iron & Wine album prior to the newly released Ghost on Ghost, as a bit of a dud. Ever since he mutedly announced himself in 2002…
This is what I know about getting older. When you show up to a venue 30 minutes away, leave shortly after the opening band, get home before 10PM, and feel great the next morning, then you have…
A combination of violin, piano, and vocal lessons during Sara Syms‘ childhood and inspiration from her folk-singing mother pushed her to pursue a career as an Americana artist. You can hear her early training echoing in the…
When you need are in need of a moment to slow your pace, breathe easy, and enjoy the subtle intricacies that mystify our lives on a daily basis, then I suggest nothing less than the beautiful scenes of picturesque…