Maeri Ferguson

A journey like Jon Muq’s is almost cinematic in its grand, sweeping twists and turns. Born and raised in Uganda and settling, somewhat fortuitously, in Austin on the verge of the pandemic, Muq was warmly welcomed by the city’s vibrant music community. Eventually came the Dan Auerbach stamp

“Think of everyone you hurt, starting with yourself,” sings Tim Easton on his latest album, Find Your Way, his voice expertly seasoned by the nearly three decades of his journeyman career. He repeats the refrain like a call and response: “Everyone you lied to, starting with yourself / Every broken promise,

You are your own worst critic, so the saying goes. It’s a near universal truth of humanity that it’s far easier to see all the bad than any of the good in moments of self-reflection. Nashville-based singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt started digging into this juicy stuff on her acclaimed

The many lives of Joe Pernice have included frontman of multiple bands and solo projects, novelist, baseball coach, and TV writer. So much life lived can lead a man to come face to face with his own mortality, something Pernice did about five years ago when he experienced the significant

It might make sense to look at Saint Cloud, the beloved, spellbinding 2020 album from Waxahatchee, as a kind of beginning, as its nucleus Katie Crutchfield took her first steps toward a more alt-country sound. Then, her 2022 collaboration with Jess Williamson, Plains, felt like another few steps (ND review)