In case ya missed it on the tuner, here's the NPR Fresh Air review of the new album from Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis, Wild! Wild! Wild! Critic Ken Tucker nails it.
"A shrewd, witty album that's a throwback to the earliest era of rock n' roll — but it's not pickled in nostalgia."
Fulks & Lewis...Read more
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers' new album Years is featured on this weekend's episode of WBEZ's Sound Opinions with Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis, and they both give it a thumbs up, with an excellent chat about the record. Listen here or hear the show on your local ...Read more
Sarah Shook spilled the beans to Rolling Stone about every nook and cranny of Sarah Shook & The Disarmers' new album Years, and you can read what she had to say along with Rolling Stone Country's analysis of the album below.
"'Years' is a crisp display of precision. Everyone plays with fire and purpose...Read more
"Don’t Talk About It gives the lie to the idea that music can or should be so swiftly or easily pigeonholed; call it country, call it pop, call it garage rock. I just call it 'great.'"
Ruby Boots' brand new album 'Don't Talk About It' is one of Bandcamp's Essential Releases with a spot-on review! Head...Read more
Hey, they like it! The eloquent overlords of Pitchfork reviewed Cory Branan's new album ADIOS and said it's "possibly his best album to date—it’s certainly his most musically imaginative and arguably his wisest." That's an endorsement if we've ever heard one. The album is out now on CD, vinyl LP, and digital. ...Read more
And honestly, who isn't? Only people who haven't yet heard it! You can do that here.
"The album spans the gamut from a playful Mills Brothers-style vocal arrangement of "Buglight" to the baroque pop orchestrations of "Bluebirds in Michigan." The disparate songs coalesce around a tone that is unapologetically uplifting. It's impossible to listen to the Flat Five and not...Read more
MTV News's review of Lydia Loveless's Real, written by fellow Ohioan Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, is an honest, geographical, and personal take on the album. Read it here.
"What I appreciate about the music of Lydia Loveless, even after all these years, is that I am being sold nothing. Saying “the work speaks for itself” is a cliché that...Read more
Did ya hear the bit about Robbie Fulks, musician on NPR's Fresh Air this morning? If not, it's right here.
"One element of the excellence of [Fulks's] new album Upland Stories is the strength and variety of his singing." —Ken Tucker, NPR Fresh Air
The album is out now on CD, vinyl LP, and digital....Read more
Looks like Washington Post had a killer time at the Lydia Loveless show in DC the other night.
"Belying her tiny frame and reticent presence, the 24-year-old likes to rock — and noisily."
If you tuned into NPR's Sound Opinions this week, you know that Lydia Loveless's album Somewhere Else was on their list of "Best Albums of 2014 (So Far)" in Greg & Jim's Mid-Year Review. If you didn't tune in, here's your chance to hear some Lydia love...
Our friends at SPIN Magazine reviewed Jon Langford's new album Here Be Monsters and say it's "Langford at his colloquial best" with a 7 out of 10 rating!
Ken Tucker reviewed Jon Langford's new album Here Be Monsters on NPR's Fresh Air!
Here's the transcript of the review.
"This new album takes a bit of a break from both of those genres [punk and country]: These are more like folk songs with rock 'n' roll instrumentation, hard rock with sentiments that can be sung in a soft voice, but...Read more
In case you missed it, Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis reviewed Lydia Loveless's new album Somewhere Else on Sound Opinions on NPR/WBEZ this weekend. Greg and Jim both say "Buy it!" and rave about her songwriting, honest charisma, and her cover of Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know."
Our favorite part is when Jim says "I wanna take every 14 or 15...Read more
Oh, NPR, how you love Lydia. Let us count the ways...
We know you've been clamoring for the new Lydia Loveless album since we announced it. The release is almost here (8 days!), and NPR's First Listen is looking out for your greedy ears with a full stream of the album, along with a very detailed, dialed in write-up (Will Hermes did his homework!).
Dive in...Read more
Lydia Loveless has been named one of Rolling Stone's 10 New Artists You Need to Know!
"Sounds like Loretta Lynn and Patti Smith slamming shots at a Midwestern dive bar while cowboys and punks brawl out back."
No hyperbole there.
Pre-order 'Somewhere Else,' out February 18th on Bloodshot....Read more
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