Various Artists
Eventually almost overshadowed by her icon husband, June Carter Cash was still an American treasure.
Anchored In Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash...
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s buzzing drone of a voice is a little deeper today but remains oddly effective.
His songs are still what count. Many people...
Bigelf
Bigelf's metallic circus-influenced music is a quilt of T.Rex, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd. It's essentially a six-pack of kick...
Telekinesis
Telekinesis' eponymous (plus exclamation point) debut album is a gem full of simple, straight-ahead tuneage and dumb-happy lyrics, channeling Rivers Cuomo's torn-windbreaker angst while...
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...
Robert Gomez
Current popular music usually veers into either the lighthearted lane or the intense, leaving little room for artists who both rock and groove. Enter:...
Bob Margolin
As with most blues, feel and sound matter more than lyrics. The words don’t always matter because the emotion in every real blues song...
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...
Gretchen Peters
Burnt Toast & Offerings is a thematically pure collection of a dozen songs about yearning and waiting from Gretchen Peters, an accomplished songwriter who’s...
Raleigh
Dallas-based Raleigh’s unique brand of hyper-melodic, shoe-gazer rock has been getting a lot of buzz lately.
Also, frontman/vocalist Josh King is one of the nicest...
