[rating=8.00] Almost two years since their stellar and critics favorite To Be Kind was released, Swans’ The Glowing Man has the band changing up the pacing a bit; this is
[rating=7.00] Seven albums into their career, Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John continue to fine-tune their style of infectious indie pop. Though the band’s major breakthrough – both commercially and
[rating=8.00] Mike Eldred knows how to navigate the various hues of the blues. His band’s new album Baptist Town demonstrates this versatility while also proving a point — that is,
[rating=7.00] If you look at the history and timeline of American music, it seems only natural that two of our country’s greatest contributions to the world – blues and hip-hop
[rating=9.00] Well goddamn. It’s rare that a band releases a burner for their sophomore album, the kind you listen to the entire way through and then hit repeat. Yet Portland, Maine
[rating=6.00] There’s an ongoing debate about the state of the Avett Brothers’ music that begins with 2009’s Rick Rubin-produced I and Love and You. The Avett Brothers, a North Carolina-based
[rating=8.00] Rich Robinson’s last album under his own name, 2014’s The Ceaseless Sight, set in motion a sequence of events that, in combination with the reissue of his previous solo
[rating=6.00] The Royal Southern Brotherhood certainly don’t lack confidence on The Royal Gospel. Quite the contrary, as the title suggests, the band’s offering unvarnished truth(s) in musical form. The trade-off
[rating=8.00] Every Felice Brothers album has its own particular distinction, but Life in the Dark may have the most significant one in their ten-year history: all the material was composed
[rating=9.00] With ten albums to his credit and a career that resides well below the radar, Michael McDermott might have been forgiven had he simply chosen to chuck his ambitions
