[rating=8.00] There’s little surprise herein. And that’s a good thing. The mellow, atmospheric, softly seductive sound Dean Wareham crafted at the helm of the indie prog bands Galaxie 500 and
[rating=7.00] It had been four years since the experimental instrumental rock band This Will Destroy You released new music and in late September they dropped New Others Part One. Then
[rating=7.00] Frank Zappa was notoriously prolific, so much so that his record company Warner Brothers would not release his mega offering Lather, so Zappa went to a local radio station,
[rating=7.00] New Freedom Blues is the sixth studio album for the North Carolina-based Town Mountain, the follow-up to 2016’s Southern Crescent. Helmed by producer Caleb Klauder, the band stepped outside
[rating=8.00] This is a throwback to vintage blues, played acoustically by three of the genre’s best players. On Journeys to the Heart of the Blues Grammy-winning guitarist, vocalist and Blues
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Mi Vida Local, the new album from Atmosphere, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on
[rating=7.00] The modern-day Waylon Jennings, Michigander Whitey Morgan, is back with his first album in three years, Hard Times and White Lines. It follows 2015’s Sonic Ranch, named after what’s becoming
[rating=9.00] Rarely has a title been more appropriate for an album. “Griot – (in West Africa) a member of a caste responsible for maintaining an oral record of tribal history
[rating=7.00] Given they’re best known to most people as “that band that did the whistling song”, it’s easy to underestimate the loyal following Peter Bjorn and John have. The Swedish
[rating=9.00] On her critically acclaimed debut War Surplus, Becky Warren tackled the topic of returning veterans and their complex standings in our society with lack of support and the way their struggles can
