It was fun at first years ago to hear Raul Malo singing cocktail lounge music, which offered a nice diversion from the straight country music of The Mavericks‘ early days. Yet when listening to the group sing…
Ex Norwegian trade in chunky power-pop that’s easy to trace back through the generations, noting where different aspects of their music show up as you listen to it. While that could be damning when applied to many…
“Watch the road now, watch the road now, watch the road now.” It’s not just a lyric. It’s what you’ll be saying if you focus too closely on the mesmerizing music of Young Circles’ first album, Jungle…
Upon first impression, Rachel Goodrich comes off like Kate Micucci’s character in Raising Hope. She always has an appropriate song (albeit, sometimes concerning inappropriate subject matter) for most any situation. And the way she half-talks/half-sings “Easier Said…
Despite frontman Sam Beam’s many clear efforts to dramatically toy with or expand his signature sound, Iron & Wine always sounds like Iron & Wine. Any number of factors contributes to this. For starters, Beam’s hushed, edgeless…
Last time we heard from Iron & Wine in full album form, he was successfully incorporating world music into his classic folk sound onto 2007′s The Shepherd’s Dog. It was an unlikely success, and all the more…
In scanning the lyric sheet of past Iron and Wine releases – especially breakthrough Our Endless Numbered Days – listeners will find that the songs of the Miami-based folk singer (known by friends and family as Sam…