ALBUM REVIEW: Ashley McBryde’s ‘Wild’ Offers Raucous Redemption and Hope On her fifth studio album, Wild, Ashley McBryde continues to navigate the ragged edges that shape an individual’s life. In these hard-charging songs that blend raucous rock and searing country, she peers into the fissures of the human heart as they reveal the jagged darkness of despair and trauma,
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘These Are the Days’ Michaela Anne Finds the Sacred in the Everyday Of all the ways to learn the art of letting go, parenthood may be the swiftest, stripping away the wanting and the vanity, pushing you forcefully into the present. To capture it earnestly and without saccharine is a genuine feat, one Michaela Anne mastered in her 2022 release Oh to
ALBUM REVIEW: India Ramey’s Feminist Outlaw Country Kicks Ass on ‘Villain Era’ Country music is as much about image as it is authenticity. Most country artists wear a certain type of drag to indicate their belonging in the genre – whether it’s full-on hats, boots and chaps or a trucker hat and band t-shirt — to signal what part of the Americana spectrum