Tom Williams

On her third album, 'From Newman Street,' Kassi Valazza uses humble landscapes to ground existential musings on the passage of time and navigating change.

Within seconds of their newest LP's beginning, Them Coulee Boys deliver the album’s titular phrase, “no fun in the chrysalis," shortly after, they follow with the declaration: “Change is a funny thing / Pain can make you sing.” It’s a fitting statement of intent for an

A “storm’s coming tonight,” warns Sean Thompson on the second track of his second Weird Ears LP. Engaging in a timeless country motif, he uses the weather phenomenon as a stand-in for personal dread, anxiety and grief: “The anticipation is making me sick”. A deceptively-slick rocker, punctuated by electrifying

At just 17, Ty Myers has earned nearly three million monthly Spotify listeners, signed with Columbia records, and sold out a headlining tour. Press play on his debut LP, The Select, and it quickly becomes clear why he has connected with audiences in such a way. The LP opens with

Nick Gusman & The Coyotes don’t do half measures, as evidenced by their barnstorming third album, Lifting Heavy Things, which has all the markings of a soon-to-be critical and commercial breakthrough. By the time the LP’s second track, “Sound of A Broken Heart” has finished, the band have

Double albums traditionally signal a newly ambitious and confident band, be it historical landmarks like The Beatles’ White Album and The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street or a more modern example like Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You. Usually bands take many years, even