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Various Artists

Hold off on the cake and balloons for now. Before getting around to the usual rituals of celebrating a quarter century of revelatory indie folk and singer-songwriter discoveries, while also … Read more

Premiere: Savoy Brown Ain’t Done Yet

One of the world’s longest-running blues/rock bands, Savoy Brown began delivering stellar blues-rock in London, then took up residence in New York without missing a beat. Leader Kim Simmonds continues … Read more

Premiere: Ally Venable has a Heart Of Fire

Covid-19 hasn’t silenced Texas’s favorite new gunslinger, Ally Venable. Venable’s idea of “spreading a positive message of the love,” as she describes her latest release, is to round up her … Read more

I’m Too Old for this Sh*t

Heavy metal sits one step below nonstop Polka music in my “favorites” list, and a traditional documentary about a dissolved local Florida band sounds like a world-class yawn, but I’m … Read more

Karen Matheson

Still Time is an absolute delight, a truly superb, eleven-track release that is nothing short of sublime. Matheson is best known for her voice as singer with a leading Scottish … Read more