Thank You Friends: A Mixtape
For those Thanksgiving moments– the enchanted and the maudlin– that need their own little soundtracks. Stream the playlist and enjoy these selections with a…
Reviews
Melissa Carper Makes ‘Em Like They Used to on ‘Ramblin’ Soul’
Well, kids… Daddy’s gone and done it again. If perfection is your poison, you’ll die and go to heaven from Melissa Carper’s latest grin-inducing…
Required Listening: ‘Eleven Eleven’, Dave Alvin
Eleven Eleven is Dave Alvin at his razor-edged, two-fisted best, in control, surgical, and poetic, a rock n’ roll professor with barbed wire credentials.…
Lee Fields is a Soul General on ‘Sentimental Fool’
Sentimental Fool lights fires and puts hips on swivels, divining the essence of soul through one of the greatest performers of the medium today…
Five Joshua Ray Walker Heart Punches That Put Us Away
Over the course of three albums, Joshua Ray Walker has built and populated a honky tonk plane of battered barflies, patinated angels, and degenerate…
13 For Halloween Mixtape
Ahhhh… The children of the night– what sweet music they make! Here are thirteen bone chillers and spine tinglers for your trick-or-treat! Pick &…
Review: ‘The Hometown Kid’, Gabe Lee
On The Hometown Kid, Gabe Lee colors his prodigal return and considerable writing with shades of ambient indie rock and blue-collar soul while maintaining…
Review: ‘Poor Pretender’, Long Mama
Long Mama is a project that finds its origins in grief. Singer-songwriter Kat Wodtke spent her formative years untethered, drifting through the upper Midwest…
Review: ‘People Are Beautiful’, Garrett T. Capps & NASA Country
Sci-fi whine, psychedelic synth, and twangy reverb mark People Are Beautiful, the latest effort from Garrett T. Capps and his galactic San Antonio outfit…