It seems appropriate then that the album ends on a beautiful cover of “Somewhere Under The Rainbow.” The Smoking Popes’ incongruent Sinatra meets The Ramones vibe seemed a little confounding yet ...

The album is an evenly split mix of originals and covers rendered by Walker’s core band of multi-instrumentalist Rhees Williams and drummer Mark Raudabaugh Jr. Assisting them are Rix on a variety of ...

Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Jefferson Ross dedicated each song on his brilliant 2022 Southern Comfort to one of the South’s eleven states. Ross has emerged three years later with an even more ...

Some thought the band was a joke, but if so, the band was in on it. The band’s first two albums went platinum and gold, but then they broke up. Dreams on Toast is the band’s eighth album and sixth ...

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Originally released in 1975, the album beautifully captures the synergy of Cruz’s powerful vocal presence and Pacheco’s innovative musical direction, marking a high point in their collaborative legacy ...

A collaboration between an EGOT and an Americana trailblazer should be a home run, but Who Believes in Angels? is a sanitised ...

About the Album: Songs on this album ... Peekaboo Waltz and 13. Red River Jig. Bill Stevens is a Gwich'in musician specializing in the Athabascan (Indian) old-time fiddling music of interior ...

Read the lyrics of Come On! Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens, a layered indie folk song that blends personal insight with state history.

Some of the tracks here seem like a natural fit for the string band treatment like the album opener “Mt. Caroline” (easily the best song on this record) or “Rooster,” while there are other songs here ...

Chicago punk legends Smoking Popes are back with a new full-length studio album called Lovely Stuff, their first since 2018’s Into The Agony. The album will be released on April 4th by the Anxious & ...

Starting with the mostly cover song effort The Loneliest Man I Ever Met (2015 ... That trend continues on his final album, Poet of Motel 6. The standout number is the opening title track, which ...