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?"
It would be an understatement to say that 2011 is going pretty well for Cake: the sardonic rock band’s newest album, Showroom of Compassion, debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, and they’re about to embark on a string of sold out shows. We got the chance to chat with trumpet/keys player Vince DiFiore about […]
God bless America, where every man is free. Right now, this very second, a mother somewhere is assuring her daughter that if she eats her vegetables and...
here is little doubt that Jack Johnson has become a sonic caricature of his laid-back self. The release of his latest effort, the let’s-all-be-happy-and-chill album To The...
It’s been eleven years since Slim Shady cleared his throat on what was essentially Eminem’s debut single, “My Name Is…” and asked, “Hey, kids do you...
For most of her career to date, singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has toggled between earnest, gut-level vignettes and sunny pop-rock designed for the soccer mom set. So,...
Ty Segall doesn’t write songs. He scrawls them. Favoring purposefully sloppy performances captured in grainy garage lo-fi, the San Francisco musician flaunts his influences, as if he’s...
Is it folk? Is it rock? Stop—you’re both right. O Ye Devastator, the latest album from Denton, TX, troubadour Doug Burr, is a study in how people...
Tribute albums can be tricky little divas. Often, these ragamuffin collections lack a certain cohesion, and are generally void of the indefinable mojo that made the...
Nine years is a considerable stretch of time by most standards. In pop music, that span might as well be an eternity. It’s been an eternity since...
After indulging in a prog-rock period for its past couple of albums, indie veterans The Decemberists return to folk-country sensibilities on The King is Dead, a pleasant and capably...
Taylor Swift’s much anticipated sophomore album finds her at a point of transition, on the brink of two very different and conflicting musical directions—one of which...
