Old Crow Medicine Show entered 2020 a different band than they had been in 2019. Founding member Critter Fuqua left the group for the second time after a New Year’s Eve gig at the Ryman in Nashville. Ketch Secor, who… Read More
The last release from Wetware – the Brooklyn-based duo comprised of Roxy Farman and Matt Morandi – was 2018’s Automatic Drawing, an album of intoxicating industrial beats that have a definite experimental thrust but still contain a hint of accessibility.… Read More
As an artist, Lee Jones always seems to linger on the fringe of things. Sonically, his music is notable for its delicate qualities, its microtonal precision and attention to detail. His most well-known album is, after all, titled Songs for… Read More
Susan Sontag was so intellectual that she had to make her first film in Sweden, and here’s Duet for Cannibals (Duett för kannibaler) 50 years later, lovingly restored by the Swedish Film Institute and arriving on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.… Read More
Between the years of 1986 and 1994, a movement called New Jack Swing took popular culture on an unforgettable ride and its undeniable influence still carries on to this day. Harlem, New York gave birth to the Harlem Renaissance, but… Read More
Matthew Stevens is state-of-the-art jazz guitar in 2020, someone who is at home with a huge range of the best musicians of the moment—recently recording with Dave Douglas, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, and so many more. His approach and… Read More
Afia Atakora’s debut, Conjure Women, is a vivid exploration of the bondage and power of women. A work of historical fiction, the novel is set in the interbellum rural South. Building a town on the ruined plantation of Marse Charles,… Read More
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jerry Castle releases his latest album, Midnight Testaments, on 28 August. The record includes the veteran musician’s latest single, “Pick Up Your Guitar”. With his ambitious 2018 concept album, Brand New Hello behind him, Castle returned to the… Read More
Brooding in the reflections of a relationship gone awry, the Danberrys’ “Undertow” sees lead singer Dorothy Daniel take the reins with a fiery vocal performance that makes it a standout song. Her booming vocals hold the arrangement together, surrounded by… Read More
“It will stand the test of time.” So says Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods on the band’s new record All That Glue. The album, a retrospective on the band’s career over the past seven years, arrives after their previous effort,… Read More