Kyle Petersen

There’s a scene in the 1976 documentary Heartworn Highways where an array of songwriting legends — Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, and a young Steve Earle among them — are sitting around a room having a classic guitar pull just for themselves. It’s a bit tender, a bit

It’s hard to separate the cultural position and commercial success of Zach Bryan from the music he makes, so let’s cover it briefly. Bryan is a Navy veteran who found success posting video recordings of his songs on YouTube. He presents as both brawny and earnest, with a

SUSTO, as always, contains multitudes. The Charleston, South Carolina-based outfit has always functioned as a quasi-band in the Wilco mold, with singer-songwriter Justin Osborne at the helm. With his catchy, sharply observed musings, he and a close set of collaborators create an expansive sound that dissolves ’90s grunge-pop, beach bum

It’s now been nearly two decades since Bettye LaVette’s debut, I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise, on the indie behemoth ANTI- Records, which revitalized the R&B singer’s mostly thwarted recording career and sent her on a late-career hot streak that continues mostly unabated

There’s an unerring sense of both comfort and vision in the music country singer Laura Cantrell has made over the last two decades. The singer came up in the New York City alt-country scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and from the start had a subdued sound

There’s a strong temptation to frame Proof of Life, Joy Oladokun’s follow-up to her self-released breakthrough album in defense of my own happiness (ND review), as a pop-oriented major label makeover. On in defense, there was a certain level of homespun charm to the proceedings, with Oladokun’s