Ten years ago, Brian Fallon was the frontman for one of the best modern rock bands in America. Over the course of five LPs, The Gaslight Anthem spun earnest, story-driven tales of youth and romanticism. Their songs were indeed anthems, […]
Love is a Pandora’s box of trouble on the unsettling fifth album from Canada’s Basia Bulat. Not just a source of heartbreak, it can be an illusion that keeps you from seeing clearly, and perhaps a cruel trick played by […]
A rare treat in today’s genre-diverse landscape, Appalachian Road Show is dedicated not only to playing music that’s in keeping with traditional bluegrass but also to highlighting the historical and cultural origins of its namesake region. The band chose this […]
“Scream,” the closing track on Lilly Hiatt’s new album, Walking Proof, not only encapsulates the narrative arc of the album — the vagaries of life on the road, the ragged ways we move through relationships, the proclamation of living life […]
Jill Andrews is determined to stay true to herself on Thirties, her first solo album in five years. Across the album, Andrews reflects on a decade full of the highs and lows “spent single parenting, falling in and out of […]
Bill Homans looks as rugged as the blues he plays. As his alter ego, Watermelon Slim, Homans honed his rough-and-tumble, bare-bones blues style bouncing around the country in a variety of blue-collar jobs. A Vietnam vet, he recorded an anti-war […]
Music, definitely at its best and sometimes at its worst, brings people together. It’s an agent of good in the world, a way to bring together performer and listener, musicians with other musicians, and cultures with other cultures. It takes […]
I hope you’ve already seen The Good Place, because there’s a potential spoiler below. Near the end of the show’s final season, William Jackson Harper’s character, Chidi, and Kristen Bell’s Eleanor are discussing mortality, and Chidi shares a Buddhist conception […]
Mark Erelli’s newest release, Blindsided, says just as much about who he is as it does about where he’s been. The secrets are embedded in the restraint of the 11-song set, a collection efficient yet varied, emotional yet exact. It’s […]
A good love song never goes out of style. It’s like Sir Paul McCartney sang: “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs / I look around me and I see it isn’t so.” And, to […]
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