John Amen

With their latest album, Time in the Sun, SUSTO release their most pop-infused and rhythmically adventurous album to date. Replete with ebullient sounds, the project arrives at the onset of autumn, providing a reminder that lightheartedness and a sense of buoyancy, often associated with summer, are perennially accessible, regardless

Mostly a solo guitar venture, Laurel Premo’s new album Golden Loam is an austere set compared to 2019’s The Iron Trios, which highlighted the Michigan-based artist’s multi-instrumental prowess and skills as a collaborator. While Premo’s latest release underscores her talents for arrangement and composition,

Over a 40-plus-year career, David Ferguson has engineered projects for Johnny Cash, John Prine, and Sturgill Simpson, among other luminaries. Now producing and contributing lead vocals to his own album, Nashville No More, the Grammy Award-winning Ferguson is supported by an impressive ensemble of back-up singers

With his 14th LP, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Willie Nile doubles down on the melodic and riff-driven approaches of 2006’s Streets of New York, 2013’s American Ride, and 2016’s World War Willie. The result is a project that oozes an ebullient ’70s-rock-and-

With his latest album, Hope, Jim Lauderdale releases another set of well-crafted songs, integrating rock, country, and folk templates. Inspired in large part by the global suffering he witnessed during the COVID epoch, Lauderdale addresses universal themes, including the resilience of the human spirit. Additionally, he speaks into the

Aquatic Flowers, the fifth album from Nashville-based Tristen Gaspadarek, aka Tristen, spotlights the singer-songwriter’s proficient lyricism, mellifluous voice, and gift for crafting pop-inflected melodies, a further honing of the palette used on previous releases, including 2017’s enchanting Sneaker Waves. The album launches with “Complex,” Andy