The former Strangefolk co-founder lead singer and his band “The Assembly of Dust” are back with their sophomore effort, The Honest Hour. Following up their spectacular and finely crafted self-titled debut studio effort, The Honest Hour showcases the Assembly of Dust in the more familiar and looser live setting.
Trent Dabbs, follows in that mold of minimalist serenity with his debut Quite Often. Refusing to write formula songs, Dabbs takes his brand of celestial folk and makes it float quietly and peacefully aboard lush instruments, proving Dabbs is an artist with a knack for entrancing songwriting.
Compromises is the debut album from Appleton, Wisconsin’s Number One Fan. Though their website doesn’t tell you an awful lot of the fellas, we do learn who their influences are, though one listen to the first few songs on Compromises will answer that question for you rather loudly.
With the arrival of September and fall just around the corner, here
The Drive By Trucker’s sixth album is a sweaty collection, capturing true down and out Alabama living, where people have no choice but to lead a life of crime. Tales of tragedy, incest, hardship, struggle, blood, sweat and tears ramify the aura of this narrative release, led by five southerners who lived to tell the tales of “The Dirty South.”
O.A.R. has done something special in its six plus years of existence. They have gone from a local college bar band in Columbus, Ohio into a touring machine playing to packed or near-packed theaters across the country almost nightly, and they have done it their way. On this night in Portland, Oregon, they would share the bill with Guster, Howie Day and Matt Nathanson for an evening of roots flavored music.
After two self-released EP
If politics and music doesn
This coming of age story is no typically sappy tale. Braff
Thank you Macha for being simultaneously ahead of your time and caught in a bit of a New-Wave nostalgia thing.
