Rachel Cholst

Garrett Owen’s guiding force on Memoriam seems to be: expect the unexpected. Owen spent five painstaking years writing this album – the majority of which were devoted to end-of-life care for his grandmother, who lived her last few years with dementia. Owen funnels these experiences to interrogate how they impacted

It seems Flamy Grant has been defined more by her media controversy than her music. This is unjust but understandable – these days, a country music-slinging Christian drag queen is bound to draw ire from all the wrong people. But, if there were any doubts about her artistic prowess, her latest

Michelle Malone has been the life of the party for decades, and on her new album, Southern Comfort, she demonstrates why. A good party is fun, but a great party is a much deeper experience – it’s not about barely remembering what happened the next day, but more about a

Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation) have worked nothing less than a miracle on symbiont, out Friday on Smithsonian Folkways. The album continues the work of Blount's Afro-futurist climate change epic The New Faith (2022) and Obomsawin's portentous assertion of Indigenous music’s place

Caleb Caudle has traveled a long road to where he stands today. His music has gone through many permutations, and his latest album, Sweet Critters, has found the sweet spot between his explorations into folk, gospel, country soul, and funk. This is an album of homecomings and growing into yourself