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?"
We tend to canonize indie music, identifying key influences in different genres and movements and holding succeeding works to the impeccable standards they set. Thanks to the internet, we can witness this process of canonization as it happens. For instance, 10 years after giving Neutral Milk Hotel’s seminal In The Aeroplane Over The Sea a respectable—though hardly […]
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No listener or critic would be wrong for calling Jamey Johnson’s double-disc opus The Guitar Song a masterpiece. Imbued throughout with Johnson’s typically veracious songwriting, the 25-song,...
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It’s impossible to talk about Wavves without addressing the band’s troubles. In May 2009, after releasing a debut album that met with grassroots support and critical high-fives,...
Although Symphonicities appears, on its surface, to be the sort of stunt a mid-career pop star would embrace as an excuse to tour, Sting has actually created a work that...
A little over halfway through the year and already our Americana cups runneth over with stellar tribute albums featuring new takes on songs by Shel Silverstein...
That Raul Malo is one of the truly great vocalists—in any genre—is indisputable. That Sinners & Saints, his new record after 2009’s exquisite ramble Lucky One,...
As word began to spread about the liberation of Miley Cyrus from Disney’s shackles, pundits began equating her de-Mousification with another high-profile Mouseketeer’s: Britney Spears. But,...
Hip-hop releases are notorious in their arrival: for being late; for failing to live up to their hype; for failing to arrive at all. Consider Detox,...
