Album Reviews

The former Strangefolk co-founder lead singer and his band “The Assembly of Dust” are back with their sophomore effort, The Honest Hour. Following up their spectacular and finely crafted self-titled debut studio effort, The Honest Hour showcases the Assembly of Dust in the more familiar and looser live setting.

Trent Dabbs, follows in that mold of minimalist serenity with his debut Quite Often. Refusing to write formula songs, Dabbs takes his brand of celestial folk and makes it float quietly and peacefully aboard lush instruments, proving Dabbs is an artist with a knack for entrancing songwriting.

Compromises is the debut album from Appleton, Wisconsin’s Number One Fan. Though their website doesn’t tell you an awful lot of the fellas, we do learn who their influences are, though one listen to the first few songs on Compromises will answer that question for you rather loudly.

After two self-released EP

The Drive By Trucker’s sixth album is a sweaty collection, capturing true down and out Alabama living, where people have no choice but to lead a life of crime. Tales of tragedy, incest, hardship, struggle, blood, sweat and tears ramify the aura of this narrative release, led by five southerners who lived to tell the tales of “The Dirty South.”

Thank you Macha for being simultaneously ahead of your time and caught in a bit of a New-Wave nostalgia thing.

Hoge signed a contract with Atlantic records early in the new century, only to have the subsequent major label debut ignored by the label brass and forgotten about. Now unencumbered of the restraints such corporations can tie on an artist, he

Powerful, sexy and demanding, Charlotte has the ability to hit notes that flirt with disaster, where less confident singers might come off as abrasive and whiney, she somehow delivers with an abundance of confidence and beauty.

As the lead guitarist for Natalie Merchant

If you

The kick back low-key tunes on Songs From The Front Porch probably won’t make Michael Franti

Set your CD player on random shuffle, turn it up loud and let it roll. You may look up several hours later to find you were in a trance. Time has no meaning in Monk

If David Spade were reviewing Kiss & Tell, he

Beneath the wool hat, great talent lies within Badly Drawn Boy, but disappointingly One Plus One Is One equals nothing.

Silent Drive fancy themselves as a sort of genre-bending answer to contemporary indie rock, and in many respects, they weren

Mofro sets you down on a rickety porch in the everglades, rocking chair underneath you, and a hot summer breeze rolling over the murky waters.

Woody Creek is a country road collision between the reliable green tractor pulling slide guitar, fiddle, and banjo and the rural rocking musings of a Frey/Henley collaboration.

Produced by George Drakoulious (Black Crowes, Tom Petty)the trio

The Brindley Brothers are an alt-pop-rock band from the D.C. area, featuring guitarist-singer/songwriter Luke Brindley, who has been on the scene for some time, and his brother Daniel on keys and backing vocals.

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