Reviews

Sometimes you see the description a band has for itself and you wonder what it means. In the case of 49 Winchester, you don’t really have to wonder. The band

Under the Spell of Joy, the newest release from the Los Angeles based Death Valley Girls vacillates between cosmic black hole psych-rock and punchy lo-fi poppy garage numbers as the

The Nude Party’s strong 2018 debut found the sextet knocking loudly on the door. With Midnight Manor, they kick it off its hinges. The 12-track record finds the upstate New

At the latest count eight of the sixteen tracks on Blue Note Re-Imagined have already been released as singles so you may have heard from this album already. Don’t be

It’s purely coincidental that we should be hearing the best soul singer you’ve never heard of on the heels of Johnny Rawls’ latest album title, “Where Have All the Soul

Johnny Nicholas doesn’t get many headlines, but he is arguably one of the most important roots artists over the past five decades. Any time he releases an album, it should

Chris Smither fans fondly recall the 24-song 2014 release Still on the Levee, billed as a ‘retrospective’ even though it was filled with plenty of new songs. The now-iconic five

Okay, the headline is a bit inaccurate as Bonnie Whitmore did release her own 2016 F*** With Sad Girls, the title of which indicates that she’s the no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners type.