If you think that Right About Now I’d Like To Move To Austin And Buy A Purple House is a rather long title for a record, know that it’s also the title of the first song on this five-track EP – and that the song is seven and a half minutes long.
Know, also, that the [...]

Walk Along is the second album from the Mickeys, a duo of lovely, talented twin sisters from Michigan who sing heartfelt songs in the kind of dulcet harmonies only siblings can. The album should swell the ranks of their following here and overseas (they’ve done a couple of European tours), and will no doubt please [...]

“I haven’t been to the lake since music’s mystery has been replaced.” For many musicians, this would be a profoundly sad lyric, but “Weary Apology”, the second-to-last song on Weary Things, doesn’t have such a feel. Instead, it’s a nostalgic look at accomplishments, a mixture of past joys and current responsibilities which is echoed in [...]

The fact that Hear Music, the label which keeps the front counters at Starbucks littered with CDs, was the initial home to this debut collaboration signals what’s in store: sunny folk-pop that goes well with caffeine and the Sunday paper.
But Jon Foreman and Sean Watkins demonstrate deeper into this album that they have far adventuresome [...]

We each inevitably hear music in the particular ways that we do at least partly because of all that we’ve heard before – because of the context and expectations we bring to new work. For instance, many of us have anticipated Ready For The Flood, an album by Mark Olson & Gary Louris, in light [...]

You may not recognize the name, but seven albums into a sixteen-year career, Canadian musician April Verch has gained an audience far beyond her native Ottawa Valley. The accomplished fiddler and stepdancer brings a wealth of talent and creativity to her latest release, on which she’s supported by an impressive cast of acoustic musicians and [...]