Last Chance – ‘Timeless Hours’ (2021)
Ingrid and Jack have stepped out with perhaps their most introspective album to date, an album filled with the defining moments that make bluegrass and folk music what...
Jenell Kesler
Dean & Britta – ‘Quarantine Tapes’ (2020)
The postman stood at my door with a record box hanging at the end of his hand, which turned out to be a test-pressing for Dean & Britta’s...
Donald Fagen – ‘The Nightfly Live’ (2021)
I’ve never found myself enamored with live albums, so when Donald Fagen released his emancipated 'Nightfly', recorded with a full band before an audience, I rubbed the back...
Steve Gunn – ‘Other You’ (2021)
Steve Gunn turned a corner on 'Other You', and while all of his records float on a hazed breeze, this one is profoundly delicate, like driving down a...
The War on Drugs – ‘I Don’t Live Here Anymore’ (2021)
The new album by War On Drugs, 'I Don’t Live Here Anymore' is very much in and of the times we find ourselves living, yet is resoundingly so...
Soft Speaker – ‘Priestess of Carnality’ (2021)
If you’ve been rolling with Soft Speaker over the last few years, you’ll be delighted with their new outing 'Priestess of Carnality', an album that brings new changes...
Dean Wareham – ‘I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A.’ (2021)
With Dean Wareham treating me to a test-pressing of his new solo album 'I Have Nothing To Say To The Mayor of L.A.', I’ve been fortunate enough to...
Various Artists – ‘Funky Chimes: Belgian Grooves From the 70’s Parts 1 & 2’
I’ve been told, “This sort of music was available to the ordinary consumer in 1970's Belgium, with a delivery that was sort of mind-boggling. If you saved up...
Send Medicine – ‘By Telepathy & Reputation’ (2021)
'By Telepathy & Reputation' by Send Medicine carves out a very intoxicating space, where with the band’s crystal-clear notes, hushed vocals and fuzzed guitars, the record manages to...
National Flag – ‘Thank You & Goodnight’ (1976)
By now, my short relationship with National Flag is the stuff of legend, at least in my own mind, which went sort of like this: I was on...