It is easy to forget that it has been three whole years since Phoebe Bridgers’ debut record, Stranger in the Alps. This is thanks to a handful of collaborative projects that have kept her in our ears, including boygenius (with […]
Sometimes the most gentle approach accentuates the power in a lyric. Kristen Grainger & True North prove that again and again on Ghost Tattoo. Following up 2018’s acclaimed Open Road, Broken Heart, the group of Pacific Northwesterners continue their formula […]
Blaring horns and crunchy guitar lift “Your Love is to Blame,” the opening track of Don Bryant’s You Make Me Feel, out of the grooves, transporting us with its swaggering and propulsive rhythms. The funky groove celebrates love and togetherness, […]
Rough and Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan’s first album of new songs since Tempest (2012), has been rumored since last fall, and much anticipated after its formal announcement last month. His 17-minute “Murder Most Foul” appeared on March 27, and two other songs […]
These ladies are killers. They don’t skulk around dank castles flapping their capes or spouting off about croaking ravens and things that go bump in the night, but sisters Rebecca Lovell and Megan Lovell live up to their family heritage, […]
A brightness haunts the shadows of “How I Weep,” the opening track of Norah Jones’ seventh album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor. Jones’ voice floats above the interplay among viola, cello, and piano, belying the melancholy of the sound […]
As John Craigie was creating his new album, Asterisk the Universe, he was reflecting on what it means to live in 21st-century America, mirroring the scenes, conflict, and beauty he saw as a traveling musician. Neither Craigie nor anyone else […]
It could just as easily have been called It Came From Memphis, or Son of Memphis. For his second outing on Vizztone, Tony Holiday relocates his bluesy soul from back porch sessions around the country to a location famous for […]
He knew the bride when she used to rock and roll. Back in the day, pub rocker-turned-crooner Nick Lowe put out some of the best rockabilly-tinged, jump-up-and-down drinking music on the planet. “Bride,” which showed up in 1977 on fellow […]
The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has renewed a dialogue that only seems to happen when a video of horrific police abuse goes viral. That dialogue centers on a few things: specifically the nature of policing, the use […]
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