Rachel Cholst

Five years in the making, Angelica Rockne’s sophomore effort, The Rose Society, is worth the wait. Her debut, Queen of San Antonio, cemented Rockne as a stalwart of cosmic country. Rockne’s move to Los Angeles made sense, and The Rose Society chronicles Rockne’s romance and disillusionment with

With two evocative words, Wilder Woods (Bear Rinehart)’s FEVER/SKY captures the duality of lockdown. The sense of confinement with the desire to be free — and using the information superhighway to approximate it — idle in the background of Rinehart’s sophomore serving. Really, this album is a party in

EDITOR’S NOTE: As the end of the year approaches, we’re taking a look back at albums we weren't able to review when they first came out. Horse Camp was released in October. When we last left The Lowest Pair, Kendl Winter was fresh off a stint

When your whole life revolves around travel and gigging, and that world suddenly stops revolving, what happens? Melissa Carper faced that question in 2020, fresh off the release of her acclaimed Daddy’s Country Gold (ND review). Carper is a joyous nomad, having spent her entire adult life exploring the

If nothing else, country music is about nostalgia, the sad realization that you can never quite go home again, even if you never leave. On Gabe Lee’s The Hometown Kid, Lee illustrates that you can come from a big city and feel the same way about home as a