[rating=9.00] Ever since Alabama Shakes knocked us over the head with their 2012 release Boys & Girls, we’ve all been waited with bated breath for their follow up. Now that
[rating=8.00] Filled, as usual, with both tautly constructed melodic fills and wildly improvisational guitar freak-outs, Portland via Idaho rockers Built to Spill are back with a new album, the delightfully
[rating=8.00] Rocky Votolato has always won points, at least in the ears of this reviewer, for the intense honesty and emotional transparency of his music. Votolato’s recent work has been
[rating=8.00] Ryley Walker is not ashamed of the bevy of influences who inform his sound. Primrose Green – his third solo album – finds the folksy singer/songwriter fully embracing the
[rating=3.00] If nothing else, the California rock outfit the Mowgli’s will always have “San Francisco”. That tune, a jubilant ode to “being in love with love”, is no doubt guilty
Columbia filled The Blue Note on Saturday night to see Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors for their first visit to mid-Missouri. Holcomb and company are currently on tour in support
Touring behind his first album in nearly seven years, José González took the stage of the Paradise Rock Club, toting his beautiful acoustic guitar and a young lifetime’s worth of
[rating=8.00] For most people who love them, Calexico can do no wrong. And over their twenty years or so as a band, they’ve continued to evolve while simultaneously remaining consistent.
[rating=8.00] Delta Rae, the dynamic folk-rock sextet from North Carolina, returns with a sophomore release that is even more ambitious than their debut. After It All is a diverse collection
It’s been an interesting year for Yonder Mountain String Band, to say the least. Last April the members of the “jam grass” band had a bomb suddenly dropped on them
