In Its 14th Year, FreshGrass | North Adams 2025 Is Neither 'Old & In The Way'
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Darling Blue,’ Marcus King Finds the Light
Night and day. If you were to line up Marcus King’s 2024 solo release, Mood Swings, against his latest effort, Darling Blue, that’s what you’d experience, the radical difference between an artist seized by shadows and one caught in the light. If the former, a viscous voyage
THE READING ROOM: 'Living in the Present with John Prine'
In May 2018, John Prine told Tom Piazza that many of his friends told him he should write a memoir. Prine laughed at the idea, telling Piazza: “’That’s for when you’re almost dead, isn’t it? I’m just getting started. There’s a lot of things I
ALBUM REVIEW: Jeff Tweedy’s ‘Twilight Override’ May Not Be Life-Changing, But It Sure Gets Things Done
In the forward to Jeff Tweedy’s latest solo release, Twilight Override, the alt-folk prophet speaks of his art with such intensity, likening the God-like act of creating to a snapping maw, chomping away at the pervasive darkness.
Darkness. It’s something to which our souls have recently been forced
ALBUM REVIEW: Ramona and the Holy Smokes Smoke the Dance Floor
On their dynamic self-titled debut, Ramona and the Holy Smokes deliver some rollicking honky-tonk barroom ramblers interspersed with smoky lounge ballads. Singer Ramona Martinez’s powerful vocals move from the emotionally resonant registers of Patsy Cline to the soaring melodic heights of Mandy Barnett. The Holy Smokes—guitarist and co-producer
ALBUM REVIEW: Neko Case’s ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’ is an Epilogue to Survival
Neko Case is a fighter, as evidenced by decades of some of the most subversive songwriting in a generation, and her force majeure of a memoir, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, released earlier this year. Case’s ninth LP, Neon Grey Midnight Green, feels like a