Aly Spaltro is unassuming and disarmingly sweet. She reads Stephen King short stories. She likes donuts and The Supremes’ music. Meeting her feels like making a new friend, if you happen to hang around burgeoning creative types who go by alternative names. Aly Spaltro is better known by her moniker, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper. Although
Singer-songwriter is a pretty broad characterization. It could range from an indie folkie like Bon Iver to an icon like Prince. But it’s the only category that can appropriately define Rayland Baxter’s new EP, ashkeLon. Baxter started buzzing last year from the attention surrounding his full-length release with ATO Records, feathers and fishHooks. Paste Magazine
Down in the boot of Louisiana, New Orleans is putting out real music (the kind with instruments), and the rest of the country is starting to pay attention. Over the last several years it has become a haven for indie musicians inspired by the South’s musical heritage. Coyotes’ members moved from across the U.S. (L.A.,
Music history has a long line of husband and wife duos: Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, The Weepies Deb Talan and Steven Tannen, Johnny and June Cash, maybe Jack and Meg White? Here is a new couple for the list: Daniel and Lauren Goans, the married members of Lowland Hum. Like all great
Ephemera: (Noun.) Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time. It is also the apt and ironic title of Tan Vampires’ new 6-song album. Apt in the sense that the album deals with the unsettled feeling left by transient relationships. Ironic, because the EP itself is hardly transient and the
Cale Tyson’s new seven-song EP High On Lonesome sounds like it was made before his parents were born. Contrary to his throwback sound, Cale Tyson is actually a twenty-something songwriter out of Ft. Worth, Texas who moved to Nashville to pursue music in the vein of George Jones and Jimmie Rodgers. Much like Gram Parsons,
A couple months ago, an electrical fire obliterated the studio of musician and producer Joe McMahan of the Nashville band Luella and the Sun. Though no one was hurt, much was destroyed. The band quickly kicked into gear and started a fundraiser campaign. Lucky for us, it included a benefit show at Mercy Lounge. Around
Josh Farrow has been causing a ruckus in Nashville lately with airplay on the city’s iconic radio station Lightning 100 and with attention from the beloved Emmylou Harris and recent transplants The Black Keys. With his well-crafted lyrics and a voice that hits spicy and sweet like a Hot Tamale candy, it’s no wonder he’s
Melbourne is far from a typical summer album release. Far from what I would expect to come out of Asheville, N.C. or Fat Possum Records. Instead, Jackson Scott’s dripping, echoing vocals and fuzzed out songs sound like they’ve come from a dingy Brooklyn apartment during the coldest part of February. Listening to Melbourne, I was
The Ancient Mayans, Greeks, and Egyptians predicted that the Age of Aquarius would be upon the earth circa 2012, and an era of fraternity, love, and wonderful technology would envelop mankind. If the Age of Aquarius really is upon us, then Kyle Andrews’ new album Brighter Than The Sun could be the album of the