There’s something warm and genuine-sounding about this disc that really gets me in those interior spaces I don’t think about too much most of the time. I mean, it’s hard to mine the roots-rock thing and not throw off a Mellencampian, small-town-homesick vibe…
Drag the River sounds a lot like Son Volt. More precisely, imagine Jeff Tweedy breaking off to form Son Volt instead of Wilco — that’s what Drag the River sounds like, complete with poppier melodies and vaguer lyrics. The band centers on two guys who sing and write the songs…
I won’t pretend to have known much about Scott Reynolds before listening to Adventure Boy, his solo debut as Scott Reynolds & The Steaming Beast. Upon doing a bit of research, however, I discovered that Mr. Reynolds…
Taken as a whole, country music is known for being the most utterly depressing of all music types. Not surprisingly, the Not So Quiet on the Country Western Front compilation showcases an array of country-ish songs whose subjects run the gamut from crying for the Lord to dying for a drink…
Supergroup/Side Project Warning: The Playing Favorites are a group of indie musicians who have been or are in bands such as Lagwagon, Sugarcult, Penfifteen Club, Bad Astronaut, and The Rentals, just to name a few. After a late night out, Joey Cape and Luke Tierney, who were on tour together…
Here’s the thing: I loathe country (well, most of it, anyway), but ever since my friend Ben got me listening to it in college, I like bluegrass. While the lines between the two often blur, admittedly, this probably partly explains why I find myself liking Richmond, Virginia-dweller Josh Small’s new album…
Love Me Destroyer, a four-piece from Colorado, fall somewhere between Jawbox and Braid, with a little thrash thrown in. On The Things Around Us Burn, the songs are mostly protest music in the style of Guy Pizzicato…
I really no idea what to expect from Chad Rex and the Victorstands’ debut, gravity works fire burns — a grainy, black-and-gray cover pic with two plastic cowboys facing off, a weird band name (what the hell is a “Victorstand”?)…
The press release claims that “The Adventures of Jet’s Muscle is, at its core, a concept album…the songs on Muscle follow a central theme; in this case, muscle cars and the idea that with the newfound freedom that comes along with owning a set of wheels…
