Liz Phair Soberish Chrysalis Records There are quite a few scenarios about what happens when your first record is proclaimed (and actually is) a true classic. Most of them are not so [...]
Mercury Rev Snowflake Midnight (Deluxe Edition) Cherry Red Records Let’s put things straight where Mercury Rev is concerned: they are a prog rock [...]
Violent Femmes Add It Up (1981-1993) (Reissue) Craft Recordings It is now 40 years on since Gordon Gano and his crew brought us their souped-up, brilliant [...]
Sara Bug Sara Bug Egghunt Records For quite a while now, you can simply label anything coming out of Nashville as country music, or even Americana. Still, those listeners who cringe at [...]
Phantom Handshakes No More Summer Songs Z Tapes It just might be that boundaries are going away, at least, as far as music is concerned. New York duo Matt Sklar [...]
Nick Hudson Font Of Human Fractures Independent Modern music genres can really be strange constructs. They can be proclaimed on the basis of musical structures, [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Twelfth Trip RidingEasy Records How long can these people have this going on? Wasn’t the Brown Acid compilation(s) just [...]
Wax Moon Hello Morning Independent There is always a musical element that presses exactly the right button with every listener. It could be a good guitar lick, a synth line or, [...]
Cathal Coughlan Song Of Co-Aklan Dimple Discs If you are able to name one of the cult artists from the Irish music scene, the name of Cathal Coughlan would be probably [...]
Kalbells Max Heart NNA Tapes For many fans of what can be called sophisticated pop/rock, a combination of Belle & Sebastian and Stereolab would be a dream come true. An additional [...]
Thorin Loeks In This Place Independent Making travelogues in musical form sounds exactly like something a singer/songwriter should do. You are presenting an outlook on what [...]
Jason Collett Best Of Arts & Crafts When Broken Social Scene burst on the scene at the turn of the millennium, the band made a huge splash due to the fact that the collective [...]
Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club Polydor/Interscope There are two things Lana Del Rey doesn’t shy away from. One is saying exactly what [...]
J. Hatfield J. Hatfield Independent Going down the Americana road these days can be quite a rocky trip. After all, there are so many artists trying to combine various musical [...]
Adam Beattie Somewhere Around The Bend Independent For many, Americana means that such music has to come from the US. Fortunately, that genre has been around for a [...]
Michael Feuerstack Harmonize The Moon Forward Music Group Montreal singer/songwriter Michael Feuerstack has dropped his latest release, Harmonize the Moon. Usually, [...]
Black Nash Black Nash Ramp Local So, what do you do when you get out of the army after five years? You record an album at home, of course! Well, that is at least what Jody Smith, [...]
Lydia Luce Dark River Independent Nashville is changing. No, it isn’t the quality of musicianship. Whether you like it or not, the Nashville sound is one of the best around. [...]
