If ever an album was tailor-made for a road trip (and this road trip has to have the words ‘great’ and ‘American’ in its description), it’s Fruit Bat’s latest record, Gold Past Life. Eric D. Johnson – the project’s singer/songwriter –…
Husband and wife duo Zoe & Cloyd are not your typical roots outfit. With an aim to pave new trails in Appalachian music, their art is one that interweaves genres and moments in time as they sing through the voices…
Tsarzi, aka Sarah Sharp, produced one of my favourite albums from last year with The Last Decade of Love. The album is full of great songwriting, it’s clever, fun, theatrical and in the end, deeply melancholic. Sarah came into the…
You can’t turn on the television or flick through your social feeds without being bombarded with bad news. “It’s like the whole world’s got the blues,” Americana singer-songwriter Graham Stone feels that lyric in his bones, it’s an apt summation of his new…
In his time, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Kevin West has run the gamut on performance style. Starting somewhere around the blues, West’s nomadic studying habits saw him investing in the structures of hard rock, metal, jazz, and hip-hop along the way.…
The debut LP from Atlanta-based father-daughter folk duo The Brookses, Lucky Charm, is the culmination of a decades-in-the-making partnership, harnessing and presenting an energy that could only be borne from family bonds. Between Jim’s experience in the Atlanta music scene–having…