Reviews

Hazmat Modine

  Hazmat Modine’s latest release, Extra-Deluxe-Supreme, breaks new ground by combining musical styles both American and world. Eclecticism is their modus operandi. In addition to their signature sounds of tuba, harmonica, … Read more

Kacy & Clayton

It’s hard to pick a side with the duo of Kacy & Clayton, their alluring and rustic Strange Country album inhabiting a beautiful, haunted past and spinning timeless tales of … Read more

Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders

More than 20 years after Jerry Garcia’s death, the vaults remain filled with enough unreleased live material to keep multiple archivists busy. Dick’s Picks, Road Trips and Dead Downloads meet the need of Dead Heads … Read more

Matt Haeck

Matt Haeck has made an extraordinary album. If in fact it is, as its title suggests, his debut, it’s that much more remarkable, because artists generally don’t display this kind … Read more

Red Dirt Skinners

The fourth studio album from the Red Dirt Skinners, an English husband and wife duo featuring Rob Skinner on guitar and his partner Sarah on Soprano Sax, is a welcome … Read more

The Bangles

There’s no need for introductions, although these Bangles don’t come off quite so sweet and innocent. Punks at heart, who clearly adored ‘60s pop and harbored a crush on garage-rock … Read more

Sara Watkins

Since the release of Sara Watkins’ last solo disc, Sun Midnight Sun in 2012, the famed fiddler, singer and songwriter, reunited with her longtime band Nickel Creek, went on tour, guest-hosted … Read more

Miles Davis and Robert Glasper

This is some new turf for this writer and probably many of our readers too. Of course, we’ve listened to Miles Davis in his many incarnations from be-bop to hip-hop, … Read more

Amy Blaschke

Amy Blaschke appears again, less than a year after last October’s Opaline, with another soft ballad compilation, Breaking the Blues. Before I even noted the title, I took a listen … Read more