Category: Reviews

Single | Renee Maskin – Sage

Just in time for spooky season, Renee Maskin’s ‘Sage’ is set in a haunted house. Directed by John Decker, the music video is captures the eeriness of isolation mixed in with a gorgeous, antiquated aesthetic. It’s a subtle otherworldly mystique…

Album | Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – In The Dark We Grow

In The Dark We Grow is the fourth full-length album by UK-based folk duo Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage and takes listeners down a different path than their introspective 2022 release Ink of the Rosy Morning, which was born in…

Album | Kate Prascher – Shake The Dust

The human condition. It is immeasurably complex, multi- faceted, beautiful and terrible, mournful yet joyous – and it has been an endless fountain of inspiration for artists through the ages. It is into this source that Tennessee-born singer-songwriter Kate Prascher…

Album | Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland

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…

Single | Christina Ward – Darkstar

Christina Ward brings us ‘Darkstar’, the latest single from the Philly songwriter’s upcoming EP, Neon. We were immediately taken by the song’s hypnotic, guitar-driven melody, reminiscent of 70s-era rock opuses this side of Hendrix or ELO. Its brooding structure offers…

Album | Beachwood Sparks – Across The River of Stars

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…

Album | Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called

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…