Rising Appalachia Bring Alluring Mystique to the Mystic in Petaluma
Their affinity for blending their sonic art with grassroots activism for social justice causes has made Rising Appalachia a musical voice for a better world.
Their affinity for blending their sonic art with grassroots activism for social justice causes has made Rising Appalachia a musical voice for a better world.
Indie folk artist John Vincent III proclaims that love is central to his life on Songs for the Canyon and offers these songs as proof.
Can the Mountain Goats’ uncompromisingly oblique and challengingly uncommercial Jenny From Thebes become a fully-staged Jennymusical?
The Shins’ Chutes Too Narrow remains one of the essential indie rock records, especially if one wants to understand the moment the genre had in the 2000s.
Sufjan Stevens draws on his broad musical experience and stylistic flexibility for his new LP, giving Javelin musical wisdom and making it one of his best.
Laura Veirs’ Phone Orphans works because of its roughness. She’s not gilding the lily, and she offers her direct sensibility as a way to address her ignorance.
The Shins’ Chutes Too Narrow is one of the defining albums of the indie rock era when the genre grew alongside independent, online publications and hipsterism.
Coming together in 2009 before naming themselves San Cisco, these three Aussie indie-poppers know what the heart wants and show it in this video premiere.
Tele Novella are more Brian Wilson than Hank Williams on Poet’s Tooth, a pop band with compositional sophistication waiting to get out of their Austin city limits.
Woods’ Perennial is about return and the comforts of routine, whether in music or life and middle-age acceptance relating to identity and the passage of time.
When it comes to the late Mark Hollis’ seminal work, Modern Nature’s No Fixed Point in Space crosses the line between inspired tribute and pale imitation.
Mikaela Davis builds her latest LP as a progression, moving further into rock territory as if demonstrating across an album the fluidity of genre and her art.