[rating=8.00] It gets louder when we’re singin’ together,” Eleanor and Chris Masterson sing on the title track off their second full-length album Good Luck Charm. Coming off the acclaim of
[rating=9.00] Any album that opens with a didgeridoo and a cavalry of finger cymbals deserves at least one listen. Morrissey’s gorgeous tenth record, World Peace Is None of Your Business, demands
[rating=6.00] With his debut album, the aptly titled In the Lonely Hour, London singer Sam Smith spends just under an hour bemoaning the loneliness, sorrow and self-doubt that love leaves
[rating=7.00] John Hiatt has recorded with his band The Combo before (albeit not since bassist Nathan Gehri replaced Patrick O’Hearn), but he’s never worked so self-sufficiently as on Terms of
[rating=7.00] The first full-length record from Vancouver band Jpnsgrls plays out like the fast-paced, hormonal diary of a teenager. Circulation is an impressive debut from the young foursome, and tackles
[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
