[rating=9.00] At first glance, it seems like an unlikely pairing. Yet on first listen, the skepticism can be shoved aside. In truth, Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin share a common
[rating=7.00] Despite two previous albums — 2009’s Curse Your Branches and 2011’s Strange Negotiations — David Bazan isn’t the kind of artist that can easily be categorized by simply giving
[rating=7.00] Given the fact that he’s an activist, poet, singer and musician, it should also go without saying that Michael Franti is a remarkably spiritual guy. That’s a given, what
[rating=9.00] The outgrowth of two previous albums that paired Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, the ambitious effort spawned from this creative collaboration between Martin, Brickell, director Walter Bobbie and musical
[rating=7.00] It takes a certain amount of bravado to release two albums simultaneously, but then again, Islands was bred from a decided indie ethos. The Montreal-bred/L.A.-residing combo partially recorded their
[rating=9.00] Josh Harty’s music brings with it an air of authenticity that transcends all those who are content to simply embrace their rustic accoutrements while attempting to strum out a
Based on the sheer power and largess of Elvis Costello’s catalog alone, any DVD that documents his 40 year career and more than 25 of his superb songs is in
[rating=8.00] London-based but with membership that extends to both sides of the Atlantic, the Boxer Rebellion have been purveying their seductive and sensuous sound over the course of 15 years
[rating=9.00] Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have always seemed most comfortable exploiting their innate eccentricity, a sprawling hippie ensemble whose members seem to come and go, leaving frontman and
If nothing else, Bruce Hornsby’s career has always seemed to be propelled by far flung ambitions. His early albums reaped an immediate fan base, garnering him a Grammy for the
