ALBUM REVIEW: Yo La Tengo’s ‘This Stupid World’ Makes a Beautiful Noise
Following a pair of experiments that kept them busy during the pandemic in 2020 — the ambient soundscapes of We Have Amnesia Sometimes and their brief yet sublime EP of covers, Sleepless Nights — Yo La Tengo return to the beautiful noise of 2018’s There’s a Riot Going On (ND
ALBUM REVIEW: Black Belt Eagle Scout Layers Realizations on ‘The Land, The Water, The Sky’
Albums are often referred to as snapshots in time, a cataloging of an artist’s life during the years in which a set of songs were written. For Katherine Paul, the better term is “realizations.”
Paul has taken to the studio and stage as Black Belt Eagle Scout over the
Marty Stuart Gears Up for New Album ‘Altitude’
Whatever adjective you’d like to apply to it, it’s great news that Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives have announced their first album in six years, Altitude.
Coming May 19 on Snakefarm, Altitude was written as Stuart was on the road with Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn as
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Homemaker,’ Jill Barber Finds the Epic in Everyday Life
With her latest album, Homemaker, Jill Barber backburners the vintage jazz and pop leanings of her midcareer work and the sociopolitical slants of 2018’s Metaphora, offering a set of tightly crafted folk tunes that address domesticity, parenthood, and conjugal dynamics. The result is an accessible sequence that exudes wisdom
Sunny War on Making Lemons Lemonade
I may not know much, but I’m certain I know how to polish a turd. In 2021, COVID-19 was still holding me, my boyfriend, and all other Los Angeles residents hostage. The whole city had a 6 p.m. curfew, and LAPD was actually enforcing it, unlike all
THROUGH THE LENS: A Look Back at Mountain Stage’s 39th Year
During 2022, Mountain Stage presented 24 shows, six of which were away from its home in Charleston, West Virginia, including Boston and its first visit to Kansas. On those 24 shows, Mountain Stage presented 117 roots performers, 11 of whom were international, to a live audience from 45 states and