Tom Williams

All Now, the fifth album from UK sister act The Staves, is their first as a duo, following the departure of Emily Staveley-Taylor. However, the reconfigured group remains at the height of their confidence on All Now, which begins with a triumphant, self-titled mission statement (“It’s all now, isn’

Laura Veirs’ newest album, Phone Orphans, was written between 2016 and 2022, a time period of immense change that upended much of the world as we knew it: two hugely consequential presidential elections, a pandemic, and a war in Europe. For Veirs personally, this period included both a divorce and

Minneapolis-based Barbaro mines life’s most intimate and seemingly mundane moments in an attempt to extrapolate larger lessons about life itself and the nature of our fragile existence. Songs like “The Lil Sweaters” and “Apples to Apples,” from their newest album, About the Winter, are illuminated by minutiae like red,

Jolie Holland has a singular and fascinating autobiography, having been raised in a cult and finding herself homeless for five years after escaping. In the 20 years since her 2003 debut, Catalpa, she has forged a sound as singular and interesting as she is. Her best songs, which are abundant

For Taylor Ashton, who spent much of his teens and early 20s touring Canada before moving to Brooklyn and busking there in 2015, home is on the road. His newest offering, Stranger to the Feeling, was recorded over the course of a 4,000-mile road trip across the length and