ALBUM REVIEW: Jobi Riccio Navigates ‘Whiplash’ With Stellar Songwriting
Jobi Riccio is restless on her alt-country debut LP. As she navigates the rocky terrain of young adulthood, the Morrison, Colorado-born, Nashville-based artist has felt like a mountain and a mouse. She’s damn lonely under the summer sun. She’s learning to be kinder to herself. The urge to
ALBUM REVIEW: Steep Canyon Rangers Charge Forward on ‘Morning Shift’
With Morning Shift, their 14th studio album and their first after the departure of founding member Woody Platt, the Steep Canyon Rangers deliver a dozen songs as evidence they have a firm grasp on who they are and the music they play. Joined by guitarist and singer-songwriter Aaron Burdett, the
The Rolling Stones Announce ‘Hackney Diamonds,’ First Studio Album of Originals Since 2005
The Rolling Stones are going into the diamond business — or that’s the story, at least, around their first studio album of original songs since 2005’s A Bigger Bang.
In an ad in British newspaper the Hackney Gazette, the band listed a website and phone number that led to
ALBUM REVIEW: Producer Jonathan Wilson Indulges His Own Imagination on ‘Eat the Worm’
What is left for the artist who gives so much of himself in service of other artists’ work? This was the place Jonathan Wilson found himself in amid a prolific string of producing gigs that probably resulted in at least one of your favorite albums of the past few years.
ALBUM REVIEW: Nick Shoulders Calls For a Country Conversation on ‘All Bad’
From the first second of All Bad, Nick Shoulders wants you to know this isn’t your grandpa’s country music. The album’s instrumental overture, “Hoarse Whisperer,” begins with a phaser blast and a sample of a menacing deep voice declaring “So if this is truly a conversation, then
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘A Song for Leon’ Tribute Honors Leon Russell’s Spirit of Reinvention
Over the years, Leon Russell’s fans, which have included some of the biggest names in every corner of the music world, cared more for his legacy than he did. Russell spent most of his career moving forward, not disowning the past so much as just ignoring it and charting