Holy Bluegrass! Virtuoso Billy Strings Takes it “Home”
2019-12-18
“Holy bluegrass!” Yes, that is our first impression when we clicked play on Billy Strings’ fourth studio album.Read More →
Put Your Ear to Sunny War’s “Shell”
2019-08-05
It’s not easy to tell that LA-based Sunny War comes from a lineage of punk music. And on her fourth studio album, that sonic past feels even more distant, seemingly replaced with dreamy, beach-faded nostalgia and bossa nova.Read More →
Joe Pug Washes Off the Electric in “Flood in Color”
2019-07-17
For ten years we’ve been following the Dylanesque folk stirrings of Greenbelt, MD singer/songwriter Joe Pug. His 2009 debut EP Nation of Heat is eternally on our playlist, sporting some of the most dense lyrics since Wilco’s 2002 masterpiece Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.Read More →
Our Favorite Album of All Time
2018-11-19
This has been a tough decision. It’s always difficult to come up with a handful of top albums. But in writing this, we have to say that, excluding jazz (too complicated to factor in), the Kinks are our favorite band. Ever. Read More →