PrinceRodriguez
Songs from the Sod, the second album from Fort Worth’s PrinceRodriguez, is a mostly enjoyable country-blues-rock romp with a bit of gypsy outlaw in...
Andy Friedman
Singer-songwriter Andy Friedman complains on the first track off his new album, Weary Things, that he misses being broken, lowdown, and alone. By the...
Fontaine Brown
Tales from the Fence Line (Manatee Records)
By Tom Geddie
Listening to Fontaine Brown's Tales from the Fence Line is almost like plugging in an old...
Staff Benda Bilili
Read the backstory on these guys, and you'll think they're superheroes. Paraplegic street musicians who tool around the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic...
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....
Signals & Alibis’ Looks Like Rain
It is impossible to listen to Signal & Alibis’ Looks Like Rain without immediately being swept back to the early’90s Scene that Celebrates Itself:...
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full (Mercury) On a first, casual listen, Paul McCartney’s new Memory Almost Full seems rather ordinary.
Second and subsequent listens...
Secret Devil Sign
A million years ago, Black Sabbath, heavy metal’s original Saurians, electrocuted the blues to invent an ominous breed of devil-courting, mom-scaring music.
Shortly thereafter,...
Sufjan Stevens
Writing a definitive Sufjan Stevens review is almost as ambitious as Stevens’ intent to write, record, and release 50 albums themed after each U.S....
Earl Musick
Earl Musick’s fourth album, Duck & Cover, is made possible by the convergence of local talent with modern technology available to almost anyone with...
