Maeri Ferguson

“Some people suffer from a social stage fright / Like the world is a sniper with a bright spotlight,” John Fullbright sings on “Social Skills,” a darkly humorous tune off The Liar, his first new album since 2014. Though he can find the funny in needing a little alcoholic lubricant to

Nikki Lane needed a break. The grind of a road warrior like Lane is not for the faint of heart, and after the release of her third album, 2017’s Highway Queen, she wasn’t sure another go-round was in the cards. Still, she kept busy, continuing to play shows,

No one can do what Early James does. That wheezy, androgynous vocal shimmy only he can produce is on fine display on his sophomore release, Strange Time To Be Alive. James delivers each phrase with a mischievous glint in his eye, as though he’s letting us in on a

Andrew Combs has sort of done it all. He’s made an actually good pop country record (2015’s All These Dreams), an album of heady psych-pop grooves (2019’s Ideal Man), and a brooding, contemplative singer-songwriter collection (2017’s Canyons of My Mind), not to mention his earliest, twangier

“Life is a beautiful question,” John Moreland sings on the title track of his latest, Birds in the Ceiling. It’s the closing song on the album, and leaving the listener with such an open-ended statement is the point. Moreland isn’t necessarily seeking answers as much as he is

“Colder Streams is a record made with love by loved ones. The Sadies have released a lot of records. This is one of them,” wrote Dallas Good in the bio for the 11th studio album from The Sadies. Reading it with the knowledge of his tragic and untimely passing earlier