Summer Dean’s Unladylike
Summer Dean
Unladylike
(Self-released)
Summer Dean has been working on her solo material for years, playing shows frequently (including opening for notable country stars Sam Outlaw and...
Jefferson Pepper
Influenced by Patti Smith, Nirvana, The Clash, Neil Young, John Prine, Johnny Cash, his factory-worker father, and coal-miner and farmer grandparents, Jefferson Pepper spent...
Died Pretty
Australian record labels have long been ahead of the curve in terms of providing bonus materials to soften the sting of exorbitant CD prices....
Man Factory, Sensitivity Boosters
Grand Prairie quirk-pop darlings Man Factory have finally updated a few of their home recordings and dropped them onto this disc alongside some tunes...
Wynton Marsalis
Good jazz is based on emotion. At its best, it colors outside the lines.
Standards become starting points for interpretations that are often, as on...
Stumptone’s Spark
One thing I noticed while listening to Stumptone’s brand new album: Chris Plavidal and company really know how to shift the mood of a...
Luke McGlathery
Luke McGlathery has been a musical pillar around Fort Worth for the past few years. Whether it’s with his former bluegrass outfit Big City...
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater’s Red Earth: A Malian Journey is a masterful mix of American jazz, traditional African songs and sounds, and improvisation that documents...
Portugal. The Man
“Sell me / I’m a skeptical boy.” So opens Church Mouth, the second album by Alaska’s Portugal. The Man.
Borne on a trellis of chameleonic...
Matt Wilson Quartet
Coming up for air in the middle of a period of obsessive listening to the 1964 Charles Mingus band with Eric Dolphy, I slipped...
