[rating=6.00] Considering that the latest album by Sarah McLachlan, the queen of the mournful piano ballad, is largely inspired by personal tragedy, one might expect an unrelenting deluge of misery.
Freak flags flew this past weekend at Austin Psych Fest, an event that has since 2008 grown from humble beginnings in a North Austin barn to a sprawling ranch with
Building up from its roots of traditional jazz, blues and folk, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has evolved into something almost beyond anyone’s expectations. With it’s closest ancestor being
Before Megafaun and before Bon Iver, there was DeYarmond Edison; four good friends banging out rustic Americana and folk rock deep in the heart of Wisconsin. A little less than
Lykke Li’s new album “I Never Learn” manages the contradictory feat of lingering in your mind without sonically overstaying its welcome.
[rating=8.00] Atmosphere’s new record Southsiders is a statement in slowing things down. At this point in their nearly 20-year career, Slug’s got a family and it seems that he and
“Please Be With Me, A Song for My Father” is, quite simply, the most insightful book written to date about The Allman Brothers Band. In a quest to learn the
[rating=7.00] For two weeks last year, Merrill Garbus, the leader of the duo tUnE-yArDs, studied dancing and drumming in Haiti “to situate myself in a non-western musical tradition,” as she
[rating=7.00] The camaraderie of The Chris Robinson Brotherhood belies their time together. Formed in 2011 by the co-founder of The Black Crowes, the group caught the proverbial lightning in a
At this point in time it’s a well-established fact that the city of New Orleans, Louisiana just isn’t like the rest of America, or the whole world for that matter.
