Tim Hensley
Tim Hensley's debut CD, Long Monday, has been a long time coming and is sure to stand as one of the best country-bluegrass releases...
Norah Jones
Norah Jones has done a lot to quash the expectations established by her first album, 2002’s Come Away With Me.
She has remained active,...
Slightly Stoopid
About 13 years ago, there was this little band from Ocean Beach, Calif., that Bradley Nowell sort of handpicked to follow the trail blazed...
Otep
The metal womanifesto has been set in stone now for some 20 years, ever since Doro Pesch headed Warlock towards the halls of the...
Backside Pick
On its new seven-song album, Like I Do, Backside Pick delivers a tight, scholarly mix of sounds, including something reminiscent of a high school...
Raul Malo
Raul Malo, mostly known as lead singer of the Grammy-winning country band The Mavericks, has a pleading, dramatic vibrato that sounds somewhat like Roy...
Obituary: Hosea Robinson
My friend Hosea Robinson died on July 3 from congestive heart failure. He was 57. I hadn't seen him in a few years, but...
Jon Spencer & Matt Verta-Ray
Recorded in three cities with three different backing bands, Going Way Out With Heavy Trash is Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray’s tribute to the...
Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy claims, “All songs in the world that you sing are folk songs, because horses don’t sing.” On the straightforward solo acoustic...
Wood Brothers
Loaded, the second collaboration between brothers Oliver and Chris Wood, follows 2006's critically acclaimed Ways Not To Lose.
The brothers' folk-blues-country sound is a little...
