Album Reviews
River Whyless Start Compelling Musical Conversations With Thematic ‘Kindness, A Rebel’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
On their excellent 2016 sophomore release We All The Light, River Whyless’ organic folk/ world-beat style was infectious. Now on Kindness, A Rebel current America cultural tribalism injects itself fully, yet the results remain engaging. The ...
The Honesty Of The Del McCoury Band’s ‘Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass’ Will Speak To You (ALBUM REVIEW)
Bluegrass isn’t a new musical genre, but the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, part of the 2000 film, gave it a very grand, very specific, relatively mainstream moment, that eventually passed. Sure, there have ...
String Band Twisted Pine Offer Up Distinctive Covers EP ‘Dreams’ (EP REVIEW)
One might think it’s a bit early in their infancy for string band Twisted Pine to offer up a covers EP. Having written every song on their well-received debut, Dreams might have been conceived as ...
Howlin’ Rain Stirs The Pot On Engaging ‘The Alligator Bride’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Howlin’ Rain’s The Alligator Bride may be indebted to some readily-discernible contemporary rock influences-unlikely opposites such as Free and the Grateful Dead-but only indirectly so and then only gleefully so. There’s not one iota of ...
Detroit Guitar Jazz/Funk Legend Dennis Coffey Boils with Live Session ‘One Night at Morey’s: 1968’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
It seems that there’s a revival of funk guitarists going on. Just two weeks after Resonance released three albums of Grant Green’s evolution funk from the 70s, Omnivore has released a live session from Detroit ...
The Mother Hips Continue Offer Fierce & Anthemicaly Celebratory New LP ‘Chorus’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The last three and a half years have been really tough for San Francisco’s Mother Hips. This band has weathered a series of setbacks that, short of the death of a band member (which was ...
A$AP Rocky’s Creative and Technical Lyricism Shines On ‘Testing’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
While most of the hip-hop world’s focus centers around the Pusha T-Drake beef, in case you missed it A$AP Rocky released a very personal and groundbreaking album Testing on 5/26. Testing is Rocky’s third studio album, but ...
The Mulligan Brothers Prove Enticing and Evocative With ‘Songs for the Living and Otherwise’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The Mulligan Brothers are an evocative bunch, and though they’re not brothers at all — as evidenced by the fact that they don’t share the same surname and that there’s at least one woman in ...
John Calvin Abney’s ‘Coyote’ Rides The Rail of Atmospheric Emotions (ALBUM REVIEW)
If you caught John Moreland on tour any time in 2017, you were treated to a mind-blowing performance from his sideman and sole bandmate, John Calvin Abney. The fellow Oklahoman is a multi-instrumentalist and managed ...
Rusty Young Still Has Stories To Tell (INTERVIEW)
It is a song custom made for a sunny spring afternoon, with its lilting melody and sweetly harmonic vocal trails, reminiscing about people who have made you smile over the years. For Poco’s Rusty Young, ...
