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ALBUM REVIEW: Brit Taylor's ‘Land of the Forgotten’ Is One Banger After Another

ALBUM REVIEW: Brit Taylor's ‘Land of the Forgotten’ Is One Banger After Another

Brit Taylor casually strings together 11 songwriting masterclasses on her latest album, Land of the Forgotten. The album is dedicated to the small victories and near-misses of Appalachia, which Taylor has traversed as a professional singer since she was a child. Forgotten lovingly pays homage to Taylor’s East Kentucky

ALBUM REVIEW: Rose's Pawn Shop Take Stock of Twenty Years of Music on ‘American Seams’

ALBUM REVIEW: Rose's Pawn Shop Take Stock of Twenty Years of Music on ‘American Seams’

Even from the opening fiddle bars, American Seams, the fifth studio album from Rose's Pawn Shop, speaks directly to the moment. The band proves their prowess at drawing from all aspects of American music to create something timeless and enduring. After twenty years of pounding the boards, it&

QUEER COUNTRY: Don't Stand So Close to Me, The Art of Queer Line Dancing

QUEER COUNTRY: Don't Stand So Close to Me, The Art of Queer Line Dancing

It happened again. For the second year in a row, my colleagues and I have organized an LGBTQIA+ Valentine's dance at the community college I teach at in the South Bronx. There were about 80 people in the room — an unheard-of turnout at a commuter campus — and only

QUEER COUNTRY: Queer Country Artists to Watch in 2026

QUEER COUNTRY: Queer Country Artists to Watch in 2026

Out with the old, and in with the new. While the current events of the new year are things we'd probably all like to chuck out the window already (this seems to be an increasingly true statement as every year passes), in the queer country world there is

QUEER COUNTRY: The Best Queer Roots Music of 2025

QUEER COUNTRY: The Best Queer Roots Music of 2025

If you're reading this, you have a sense of how deeply important No Depression is to independent roots music. Maybe you've been reading since the glossy magazine days of the 1990s (I have a vivid memory of picking up this issue with Lucinda Williams on the

QUEER COUNTRY: Dancing in Trans Time

QUEER COUNTRY: Dancing in Trans Time

There's a peculiar phenomenon that LGBTQIA+ people face in the 21st century: as we gain more social acceptance (a when, not an if – something most of us couldn't imagine when we were growing up) we find ourselves blazing seemingly new trails. This is the first time

ALBUM REVIEW: ZDAN Offers Plenty of Reasons to Care on 'So What'

ALBUM REVIEW: ZDAN Offers Plenty of Reasons to Care on 'So What'

If there’s one theme that’s characterized Americana in 2025, it’s a sense of taking stock. But if you’re Zdan, the new stage name of Nashville singer-songwriter Brandy Zdan, that process comes with less quiet introspection and more a jubilant tossing of her last few fucks out