ALBUM REVIEW: The Mavericks Reach New Heights on 'Moon & Stars'
The Mavericks just keep getting better. There’s an intimate, organic quality to their music that pulls listeners in immediately, allowing them to dwell in the luscious harmonies, the sumptuous instrumentation, and the ingenious songwriting of the band. Moon & Stars launches these qualities into the sonic stratosphere.
The album
ALBUM REVIEW: Jon Muq Debuts With Soaring, Soulful ‘Flying Away’
A journey like Jon Muq’s is almost cinematic in its grand, sweeping twists and turns. Born and raised in Uganda and settling, somewhat fortuitously, in Austin on the verge of the pandemic, Muq was warmly welcomed by the city’s vibrant music community. Eventually came the Dan Auerbach stamp
ALBUM REVIEW: Swamp Dogg Scratches a New Sonic Itch on ‘Blackgrass’
In the weeks since the release of Cowboy Carter, there have been dozens, possibly hundreds of thinkpieces written about the impact Beyoncé’s album is having on country radio and country music in general. All that attention and acclamation is well deserved, and the conversation it’s spawning is much
No Depression Sessions at WinterWonderGrass Tahoe 2024: Clay Street Unit
Check out our first No Depression Session from WinterWonderGrass in Lake Tahoe, featuring Clay Street Unit at Tahoe National Brewing Company! CSU shared three songs, two of them from their upcoming debut album, Sin and Squalor, and the third a fan favorite.
The team at Tahoe National Brewing cooked a
FRESH TRACK: Rory Block – 'Everything Is Broken'
In the 1960s, Greenwich Village was at the epicenter of the burgeoning folk music boom that was happening around the world, and a young Rory Block had a ringside seat to this evolution. With the release of her new album, Positively 4th Street: A Tribute to Bob Dylan, she gifts
ALBUM REVIEW: Nature Is the Source of Solace and Songs on Laurie Lewis’ ‘TREES’
On her new album, TREES, Laurie Lewis invites listeners to join her on a ramble through the natural world as she experiences both loss and joy. This project is her first without the mandolin accompaniment of long-time collaborator and partner Tom Rozum, due to his challenges from Parkinson’s disease.