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Billy Rosenbeck

Son Little's New, Blue Magic

Son Little's New, Blue Magic

This fall, Philly-based, R&B dynamo Son Little will release New Magic, his second full-length album on Anti- Records. But to lead off the summer, Son Little has already given a taste of the wizardry we should expect to find on that record, as he’s released “Blue Magic

May All Your Favorite Bands Stay Together: The Lumineers

May All Your Favorite Bands Stay Together: The Lumineers

It’s Christmas Eve, and I’m balanced on a stool, my back against the freshly-sprung bar in my parents living room, facing outwards. A carousel of gifts circles the room, and soon, my younger sister presents me with a thin, neatly wrapped rectangle, roughly two feet by a foot.

Folk's Punk Rock Conscience

Folk's Punk Rock Conscience

Frank Turner steps out of Bull Moose Records into Portland, Maine’s midday sun. He’s taller than expected, some 6’2, 6’3”, and clad entirely in black—black Nikes, black cut-off shorts, black t-shirt, a black paneled hat. He lights a cigarette, as he takes a left onto

Modern Day Outlaw Country

Modern Day Outlaw Country

From beneath deep, black wayfarers and tall, Stetson hats, the Vandoliers play with the smooth-harshness of an unfiltered cigarette, clearing the musical sinuses with the efficiency of room-temperature whiskey: they’re genre-bending, Tex-Mex punk that sounds like someone dropped NOFX in the middle of Corpus-Christi. They are the Wild Feathers&

The Lumineers' Roving American Literature

The Lumineers write songs with pores, songs that age, and songs can sustain meaning—or diversify meaning—over the course of years. Over the course of four years, to be precise. Proof of that exists on the band's rustic, self-titled debut, which, save for a few rogue YouTube

The Unapologetic Apology of Stephen Kellogg: "The Last Man Standing"

The Unapologetic Apology of Stephen Kellogg: "The Last Man Standing"

This past May, in advance of his new concept album South, West, North, East, Stephen Kellogg played shows in Boston, New York, and Chicago, made up of "just songs [he'd] never played off an album that [wasn’t] out yet." Kellogg had already recorded the album,

The Case for Stephen Kellogg: 1500 Words on the Best Songwriter You're Not Listening To

The Case for Stephen Kellogg: 1500 Words on the Best Songwriter You're Not Listening To

For Christmas, my sisters got me a record. And a record player. To play the record. Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town, to be precise. It's the first record in what will hopefully be an ever-growing collection of records, all part of a lifelong