Marika Hackman Cranks Up the Volume and the Honesty with ‘Any Human Friend’
With Any Human Friend, British singer-songwriter Marika Hackman largely ditches her folk leanings and makes a sharp, emotionally resonant statement.
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With Experience Comes Artistic Maturity: Kyle Craft Gets Darker with ‘Showboat Honey’
Portland-based rocker Kyle Craft adds more variety and edge to his music with his third full-length album, Showboat Honey.
Calexico and Iron & Wine Find New Ground on ‘Years to Burn’
Finally collaborating on a full-length, Calexico and Iron & Wine create an album as rewarding as it is natural with Years to Burn.
Tacocat Blesses This Mess
Seattle's Tacocat returns with This Mess Is a Place, a stellar new album in which the band confronts existential crisis and embraces widescreen guitar-based pop.
20 Questions: Porter Ray
Quiet and thoughtful, yet nimble in his poetic applications, hip-hop artist Porter Ray has much to say in our 20 Questions feature.
Weyes Blood Gets Cinematic on ‘Titanic Rising’
Weyes Blood (a.k.a. Natalie Mering) conjures up a beautiful, cinematic world through with her insightful songwriting on Titanic Rising.
Perfect Son Blows Warmly Reflective Electronic Breezes on Debut LP ‘Cast’
Cast is a deeply moving and harmonious introduction to electropop mastermind Tobiasz Biliński's latest persona, Perfect Son.
Two New Re-Issues Show How Green River Could Have Become the First Superstars of Grunge
From the misty time before Seattle became Sub Pop Rock City, that rarest of things: two genuinely overlooked rock gems.
J Mascis Returns with Another Subtle Work in ‘Elastic Days’
Dinosaur Jr. guitarist/vocalist J Mascis carries on with his trademark solo sound on Elastic Days, producing another intricate work that mixes folk and rock.
Kyle Craft Goes Widescreen with the Set in the ’70s ‘Full Circle Nightmare’
On his sophomore effort, Kyle Craft creates an album from another era that still manages to sound fresh, unique and inspired.
Kyle Craft – “The Rager” (track review)
In the official video for Kyle Craft's "The Rager", the singer/songwriter brings a sense of poetic tragedy to an intoxicating folk ballad.