Ingrid Michaelson
It may have been a chill dreary Monday, but inside Philadelphia’s Fillmore, Ingrid Michaelson and friends made it feel like the most cozy and fun of Saturday nights. It’s … Read more
Posted in November, 2016
Alexis P. Suter and the Ministers of Sound (AMOS)
This might be the first time, in the hundreds of reviews I’ve written, that I was present for the whole live performance, enabling me to give a first-hand perspective. Yes, … Read more
Peter Ames Carlin — Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
I don’t recall being all that enthralled or excited by Peter Ames Carlin’s two previous big name bios, namely Bruce and Paul McCartney: A Life. I haven’t read Catch A Wave, … Read more
Sturgill Simpson
Photos by Matt Stasi On a chilly, windy evening in Los Angeles, a city still trying to make sense of the prior week’s election results, a small town Kentucky singer … Read more
Sun Kil Moon and Jesu
On a dreary Thursday night at Warsaw, Greenpoint’s opulent Polish banquet hall cum indie music venue, Sun Kil Moon and British experimental rockers, Jesu, played a three plus hour set to … Read more
The Bombadils
Sarah Frank and Luke Fraser started out as fellow students training classically at university, then became friends once they realized their common love for folk music, and have since married … Read more
The Youngest
Turbulent and torrent times call for artistic endeavors that are soothing and familiar. Answering this siren call in an ever-prescient sense, is the Youngest with See It Through, a triumphant … Read more
Lindsey Webster
Truth be told, discs like In A Silent Way, Impressions, Jazz Goes To College, Underground Music, Brilliant Corners, Ah-Uhm, etc are never far from reach. Nor is the sustained genius … Read more
Cotton Mather Releases the 24th song, “Fighting Through,” in an Ambitious 64-Track…
It’s been 15 long years since Cotton Mather released a full length album. As a matter of fact, for all intents and purposes, the Austin based pop quartet, which … Read more
Gillian Welch
The latest– indeed, first for a few years– release from Appalachian country-Americana singer/songwriter Welch, this is well over an hour of top-dollar stuff. Welch and partner Dave Rawlings have turned … Read more
