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Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Barn”

January 31, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1

Reflections on aging, on the need to address environmental concerns and to recall that love matters. It is often the case with Neil Young’s recent new material releases that the thoughts on first contact are not […]

Aoife O’Donovan “Age Of Apathy”

January 31, 2022 Mark Nenadic 3

Enchanting folksy Celtic Americana. A charming, esoteric puzzle. In americana terms, Aoife O’Donovan is a big deal. A Grammy-winning big deal (as a third of ‘I’m With Her’, alongside Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz). So the […]

Ryan Hamilton “1221”

January 28, 2022 Rich Orpin 2

Ryan Hamilton taps into the Fountain of Wayne on power pop collaboration. The power-pop genre and sub-genres that it inspired have a breadth as wide as any in contemporary music. At the grittier, less refined end […]

Album cover artwork for Eddie Berman's Broken English

Eddie Berman “Broken English”

January 27, 2022 Kimberly Bright 0

Berman’s prescient thoughtful folk album was written back in 2019 but sounds like it was inspired by the height of the pandemic. Portland-based folk singer-songwriter Eddie Berman found himself with an album’s work of material in […]

Drug Couple “Stoned Weekend”

January 27, 2022 Cam Fraser 0

Two more stoney evenings? Sadly, there comes a time in this former young man’s life when any interest in drugs might turn more to the side effects of blood pressure medication or statins. So, with this […]