Reviews
The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at the Shakh
Recorded live in the Shakh Synagogue in Holešov, Czech Republic, The Wolf and the Lamb is a klezmer album that...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
Grass Roots
What do you get when you mix together musicians from Left Hand String Band and The Salmon Heads? Leftover Salmon,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
Anarchist Gospel
The title of Sunny War's fourth album, Anarchist Gospel, gets to the bones of the singer-songwriter's guerilla art. Until recently,...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Hawksworth
Perhaps best known as the tub-thumper responsible for the awkward, stumbling funk of art rock weirdos Dead Rider, Matt Espy...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Feast of Wire
In the late 1990s the Americana duo of John Convertino and Joey Burns created a form of desert blues inspired...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Corazones and Canciones
Confidently stating Mexican-American music's place within the American Roots tradition, singer La Marisoul has joined with Tejano conjunto Los Texmaniacs...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Relicário: João Gilberto (ao vivo no Sesc 1998)
Caetano Veloso famously recorded a heartfelt song, ‘Pra Ninguém’, in tribute to his Brazilian music heroes. The song names these...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Blazing/Freezing
This impish New York trio venerate the innovations of Bill Monroe while simultaneously shattering the music he pioneered into tiny...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Celebrants
‘My God it's good to see you,’ intones Chris Thile on the opening track of Celebrants, the first all-new album...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
King of the Blind
Originally from California, now based in Boston, the young uilleann piper Joey Abarta names his second album after a tune...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
