[rating=8.00] Equal parts Tom Waits, Professor Longhair, Warren Zevon and Randy Newman, Texas-based pianist and singer-songwriter Harvey McLaughlin brings a bizarre set of tunes, zany attitude, and plenty of sarcasm
[rating=6.00] The folk/pop outfit The National Parks has all but dropped the folk from their resume as they offer the positive pop of Places Deluxe to the world. Focusing more
[rating=8.00] When you think of female rock n’ rollers perhaps Joan Jett or Chrissie Hynde come to mind. Enter Columbus, OH-based Erica Blinn who is releasing her second album, Better
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Don’t Talk About It, the new album from country rocker Ruby Boots, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full
[rating=9.00] After gaining considerable critical acclaim and picking up new fans with 2016’s Teens of Denial, the band’s second album released under a record label, Car Seat Headrest follows up
[rating=8.00] You have to give Belle and Sebastian credit for their sheer perseverance. Over the course of their 22 years and umpteen numbers of albums and EPs, they’ve kept their
[rating=8.00] Mind the sparks that will no doubt pop from your speakers like little fireworks when you hear opening track “It’s So Cruel” off Ruby Boots’ new record Don’t Talk
[rating=7.00] MGMT continues the inside joke of their satirical songwriting on their latest album,Little Dark Age, with a tip of the hat to convention. Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden wrote their
[rating=8.00] Campfires and the cosmos feel like they share something fundamental at their core. Mysterious and elemental, they can conjure great loneliness and deep belonging; an eternal catharsis lying in
[rating=8.00] Riding the success of last year’s critically acclaimed Chris Hillman’s Bidin’ My Time (produced by Tom Petty), Omnivore Records now weighs in with their 20-track compilation of Hillman’s first two
