Music
Shawn Williams, Wallowin’ in the Night (Independent)
Wallowin’ in the Night is what it says on the box—sad songs about love and the back and forth between devotion and loss. It’s a fitting album for someone who […]
Josh Hyde, Parish Blues (Independent)
Josh Hyde will never forget that night at a Baton Rouge blues jam. When it was his turn, the teenage guitarist played lightning fast and out of control with every […]
Junior Dugas, I’ll Be Your Man (Jin Records)
There is not a lot of new swamp pop material written these days, but whenever Junior Dugas writes a song, he gathers up the guys and cuts it at his […]
Tiny Dinosaur, Songs for the Mass Extinction Event (Independent)
Tiny Dinosaur parallels another contemporary indie/folk band, Big Thief. And not just for the apparent genre similarities and dinosaur iconography, but for their lyrical and eccentric approach to songwriting. Similar […]
Various Artists, Blues Café (Putumayo World Music)
There’s always a certain aesthetic to Putumayo CDs. They’re usually 10 tracks of well-researched, sometimes rare material by artists who have helped shape a style of music. The discs and […]
Diunna Greenleaf, I Ain’t Playin’ (Little Village Foundation)
Anyone who remembers Diunna Greenleaf on the national blues scene will likely say this about her latest release: It’s about damn time. Her previous effort, Trying to Hold On, dropped […]
Quinn Sternberg, Cicada Songs (Mind Beach Records)
Not long after his sophomore effort, Mind Beach, jazz bassist Quinn Sternberg was composing material for his next release when inspiration hit. He noticed that insects chirped in a 7/4 […]
Where Nothing Burns, Where Nothing Burns (Independent)
The debut LP for the alternative rock five-piece band Where Nothing Burns is full of lush instrumentation and high-caliber production, but it’s hard to measure where it fits in the […]
Jamaican Me Breakfast Club, “Everything I Own” (Single), (Independent)
The Jamaican Me Breakfast Club has reggae-fied another ’70s soft-rock classic, last time it was The Carpenters’ “Close to You,” now it’s Bread’s teary ballad from 1972. And this one […]
Frenchie Moe, Way Down in Hustleville (Independent)
Singer-guitarist Frenchie Moe has quite the backstory: Born in France during the ’80s, she was performing blues as a teenager, and her first band was with veteran UK bluesman Victor […]
