SUZIE UNGERLEIDER AMONG THE EVERGREENS (DELUXE EDITION) MVKA A good album is like a friend who you may not have seen in a while. When you meet up, the reunion is sweet, and the conversation picks up as if no time has passed at all. Among The [...]
CASHIER THE WEIGHT JULIA’S WAR Cashier’s first full-length release is the Lafayette rock band throwing a marker down to all those who listen to them – this is heavy, unapologetic, shoegaze rock. It works, too, at least in parts; there’s some [...]
BILL ORCUTT MUSIC IN CONTINUOUS MOTION PALILALIA RECORDS Since 1996, Bill Orcutt has released 23 solo studio albums, and so Music In Continuous Motion is number 24. He has also made a great many albums collaborating with other artists. Music in [...]
ORA COGAN HARD HEARTED WOMAN SACRED BONES RECORDS I don’t think it is a coincidence that Ora Cogan’s new album opens with the brilliant song “Honey,” with a steady beat, almost like a heartbeat. After all, the album is titled Hard Hearted Woman, [...]
LAMB OF GOD INTO OBLIVION EPIC Lamb Of God has returned with Into Oblivion, their first album since 2022’s Omens. The metal veterans remain as ferocious and consistent as ever over the course of 10 tracks, led by a string of singles, “Sepsis,” [...]
ODD MARSHALL SECONDS INDEPENDENT It is not often that an album sounds like the location in which it was recorded, but the minute I started listening to Seconds, Odd Marshall’s second album (his first since 2024’s successful Sand & Glue), I [...]
MARGARITAS PODRIDAS METALES PESADOS HOPELESS RECORDS With Metales Pesados, Margaritas Podridas deliver a third album that feels both refreshed and unmistakably their own. While the band leans into a more upbeat rhythmic pulse this time around, [...]
WHERE’S BETH ACHE IS A CRICKET IN THE NIGHT INDEPENDENT Good to great singer-songwriters seem to be creeping up on us daily (again!)—artists obviously seem to have a greater need to try and express their personal sensibilities and whatnot [...]
