Like Honeyhoney itself, First Rodeo is hard to classify. It simmers then boils; it whispers then howls. Throughout, Santo delivers stunning performances that will make you wonder why the hell you haven't heard of her yet.
He’s one of Nashville’s most gifted songwriters, equally adept at penning heart tuggers and barn burners.
"We’re together, like two names carved in an oak tree. And we want to be together for a long time."
"Modern country music has become like McDonald’s. Yeah, over a billion served. But is it the best cheeseburger?"
Where can we find American folk music? In the meandering strums of a banjo along the Appalachian Mountain chain, staring up at the Big Rock Candy Mountain? Sitting on a Main Street curb in 1951, listening to Woody Guthrie assuring us that this land is indeed all of ours? Is it in Manhattan’s Sheridan Square in 1963, […]
CAKE is back, and they’re all over the place—again. Showroom of Compassion, the band’s first studio album in seven years, has at its core a hodgepodge of...
As soon as “Marathon” appeared on the internet back in June, it became a summer favorite. Slowly but surely, indie blogs discovered and fell in love with...
On Mission Bell, Amos Lee sounds like the synthesis of the disparate artists so famously brought together across the airwaves on AM radio back in the...
Come on, chillwave artists! Can’t you make your music just a little less…well, chill? When the chillwave genre first flooded the indie music scene a year or so...
There’s a new album in town, and it can be yours for zero dollars. Left On Vermont is currently making their recent EP available as a...
If you haven’t been to one of local (DC) singer-songwriter Billy Coulter’s shows yet, his recent live album Trace: Live at Goose Creek is the next...
Singer-songwriter Shane Hines’ fourth release is a record of in-betweens: with nine songs and clocking in at 36 minutes, All the Quiet, All the Chaos is...
Anyone remember the early 90s computer game Lemmings? Basically you had to get the lemmings from one side of the screen to the other safely. The...
Heads up, alt-country fans: there’s a new(ish) band in town and its name is Deep River. The NoVA trio recently released debut album Ten Mornings, a...
Not long ago, Grinderman would have been redundant. Nick Cave’s side project covers much of the same boisterous and bawdy terrain that the Birthday Party covered...
