ALBUM REVIEW: Chris Pierce Battles Despair and Injustice on ‘Songs for the Heavy Hearted’ Yes, things are bad these days. While it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the unending tide of awful news, the folks who speak out against despair and inequality can help raise the spirits. Chris Pierce is one. More than two decades into a career grounded in plainspoken folk-pop,
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Reel 2 Reel 4 Real' Is Ray Wylie Hubbard as He Was Meant to Be Heard Ray Wylie Hubbard’s latest album is alive. While the Texas music icon says it may be his last, throughout Reel 2 Reel 4 Real, chords shift and reshape, like restless muscles; rhythms snap, like bones into place; steel slithers and slinks, something awakening, yawning, stretching under the meat of
ALBUM REVIEW: Brennan Wedl Makes Room for the Mess Brennan Wedl has been making music for a long time, but it feels right that only now is she finally releasing a self-titled album. Her debut for ANTI-, Brennan Wedl, is an amalgamation of the sounds that have shaped her musical coming of age, consciously or not, but it’