[rating=9.00] On their stunning sophomore album Big Black Dog, Birmingham, AL duo Dead Fingers create eccentric and imaginative soundscapes. Songs about heartbreak, uncertainty and resilience are kooky and unique, but
[rating=9.00] A super group like The Delines only comes around so often. A collaboration between vocalist Amy Boone, the Decemberists’ Jenny Conlee-Drizos, Minus 5’s Tucker Jackson, Sean Oldham, Freddy Trujillo,
[rating=8.00] Nickel Creek co-founder Sean Watkins boasts a solid solo catalog of three prior albums, and the mournful All I Do Is Lie may be his best independent effort to
[rating=7.oo] Despite a lack of what would be perceived as “commercial success” (ten years has passed since the release of the band’s timeless single “Wagon Wheel”) Old Crow Medicine Show
[rating=7.00] On his tenth album, Noise vs. Beauty, Lorin Ashton’s message to the public is hinted at through the title. In a recent fan Q&A, he discussed “the spectrum between highly opposing
[rating=9.00] Fans of Tim Easton who aren’t yet familiar with his side project Easton Stagger Phillips will want to catch up quickly. The trio’s second album Resolution Road is a
[rating=8.00] “If you’re feeling overflowing, Throw your hands up to the sky; If your minds exploding, Grab yourself a seat – it’s time to ride.” – Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
[rating=6.00] On Mutineers, David Gray’s first release in four years, the problem is not that he has left the building, but rather that he is lost down a better forgotten
[rating=8.00] As a means to simultaneously address their longevity as an ensemble (they just hit their thirtieth anniversary December of 2013) and the challenge facing a fundamentally improvisational unit recording
[rating=7.00] Upon first listen of Bad Suns’ full length debut Language & Perspective, one would think they were listening to something straight out of the Depeche Mode registry, but the
