At times, the internet can provide such a swell of mad-hat information at once that you just need to step away from the laptop, wipe off your sweat, and sit back with a well-tailored book for a while. At other…
Chicago singer-songwriter Max Subar intends to create folk music that appeals to his midwestern roots. Planting his feet firmly into the earth and looking hopefully towards the sky, Subar is capable of inhabiting a song with the sort of hearth-made…
The amount of artistic credit that has built up around the name of Lindsey Jordan, aka Snail Mail, has gotten so high that it is difficult to make an informed judgement about it. Almost every paper or digital ‘zine has…
London-based singer-songwriter Tom Hyatt has been playing the local music scene for a while. Long enough, in fact, that he’s seen it as the living, breathing community that it is. Like a coral reef, or a fallen tree in the…
Following the split of the aptly-named Christian Heath Band, the South African singer-songwriter has since moved on to produce work of his own. Velvet-covered pop defines the majority of his new EP, One, slinking in elements of Latin soul and rock…
Taking cues from the likes of Springsteen and Petty before them, C.K. & the Rising Tide develop palatable Americana that just about anyone can sink their teeth into. It isn’t without its contemporary flair, of course, featuring reverb-friendly production that…