For many, there is a disconnect between what we tell others and what we tell ourselves: It feels inexplicably foolish to repeat the gentle words of comfort that we say to friends when looking in the mirror. There’s extraordinary value […]
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Parsonsfield’s fourth record, Happy Hour on the Floor, arrives after a period of change for the band. Harrison Goodale, the bassist since the band started, left and Parsonsfield entered a new phase. This upheaval is felt throughout Parsonsfield’s latest release […]
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 […]
A lot of ugliness lives in Unlovely, the third full-length record from Boston-based trio The Ballroom Thieves. The world is burning (“In the Dark”), there’s anger (“Homme Run”) and pain (“Don’t Wanna Dance”), and a cacophony of bad news envelops […]
Tré Burt’s folk songs sound like they have been plucked from the 1960s, but his story is made with modern-day miracles. Burt was busking in San Francisco when a stranger generously dropped $1000 in his open guitar case, effectively changing […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. Islands was released in June. There’s a welcoming softness to New York-based singer-songwriter Erin Durant’s second […]
There are so many different kinds of medicine that help us stay alive. Pills, in a multitude of shapes and sizes, keep our body chemistry in check and various natural elements can aide in our overall wellbeing too. For Asheville, […]
Halfway through Ana Egge’s 11th record, Is It the Kiss, on the standout track “Hurt a Little,” she gives listeners some touching words of encouragement: “Sometimes the work will be hard if it’s ever gonna work at all.” The balance […]
On the HBO comedy special 2 Dope Queens, comedian Naomi Ekperigin says about the current state of America: “If America was a character in a movie … what we’re dealing with, this would be the part in the movie where […]
Heather Maloney will not be put into a box. She makes that abundantly clear from the start of her fourth full-length album, Soil in the Sky. Bursting from the somnolent instrumental opener “Waking Up From A Nightmare,” the Massachusetts-based artist […]
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