The “great cremation ground” of Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana provides Josh Tillman with a way to examine the wonderfully weird life he has lived over the past ten years. The ultimate observer, he casts a jaundiced eye at the world…
One of the great lost treasures among record collectors is Buckingham Nicks, an album released over fifty years ago, long out of print, never officially released on CD and unavailable on streaming services like iTunes. Featuring a pre-Fleetwood Mac Lindsay…
Fleur and Wesley Wood make an interesting couple. He’s from the state of Washington, while she hails from New Zealand. Since meeting in 2014, they have created a musical blend marrying acoustic instruments with heartfelt lyrics and pure vocal harmonies.…
The musical path Jason Isbell has taken isn’t recommended. At the age of 22 he joined the Drive-By Truckers, ending up addicted to alcohol and coke, eventually being asked by the rest of the band to leave. Sober for over…
John Murry has lived a series of nightmares. At times it plays like a William Faulkner novel, no surprise since he was adopted before birth by his parents in an agreement with a pregnant Cherokee schoolgirl. Raised by his grandmother…
Challenges come in many forms. For Gilliam Welch and David Rawlings one of the biggest was just surviving the hurricane that tore the roof off their Woodland Studio just as Covid was putting the world into a forced hibernation in…
It’s said that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but twelve years seems like a lifetime in the music industry. Yet fans waited with bated breath for the fire of Beachwood Sparks to be rekindled. With the release of Across…
Jake Xerxes Fussell seems like music’s answer to Dos Equis’ “the world’s most interesting man.” He hosts a radio show on North Carolina’s WHUP-FM in Hillsborough with Jefferson Currie II every Wednesday afternoon. Covering music from Bob Dylan and June…
The world tends to play tricks on you when you least expect it. Though the Felice Brothers have been recording for almost two decades, singing songs of faith and despair, hope and heartbreak, dealing with every aspect of the human…
Lankum are unruly. While they play traditional Irish music, they don’t play it traditionally. At times this folk group seems closer to playing Irish heavy metal. They assault the senses one minute, then hit another button and come out with…