Album Review: Andrew Combs – All These Dreams Andrew Combs’ new album All These Dreams is one of the best country albums I’ve heard in years. He is in the company of country renaissance artists like Sturgill Simpson, Rayland Baxter, and Robert Ellis. …
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Album Review: Matt Bradford – Broken Hymns
Matt Bradford’s New Record – Broken Hymns Review by Hannah of www.rockmycommute.com Here’s my initial warning – if you don’t like country or bluegrass and you hate that steel guitar sound, then this album is not for you. It is packed full of …
Strangled Darlings – Boom Stomp King – Songs from the road and beyond
It’s the dream of many between our two coasts to quit burdensome careers and travel the space in between with hopes of achieving a new American dream. The stories of those who do so are held with reverence and awe while the defectors …
Album Review: The Washover Fans – Just Like Time – The Gorgeous Americana album we’ve been waiting for
Album Review: The Washover Fans – Just Like Time – The Gorgeous Americana album we’ve been waiting for One of the characteristics of Americana is that it must be a hybrid of other styles, often in strands of roots music. That comes through …
Album Review: The Whiskey Charmers–sexy, ambling, neat
Let me start with saying that I thoroughly enjoyed this album. I enjoyed every moment of it equally and more so each time I have listened to it. The Whiskey Charmers are a bumping and rambling trio hailing from Detroit. They boast three …
Oh how pretty is the middle of June: The EarToTheGround Music 2015 Playlist is HERE!
Oh how pretty is the middle of June: The EarToTheGround Music 2015 Playlist is HERE! With credit to Noah Gundersen for borrowing his lyric in the headline, a project many months in the making has arrived. We present to you a 13-song playlist …
Album Review: Haste by Aviation and the War
Review written by Hannah of www.rockmycommute.com Aviation and the War, wow what a band name! I love that their whole release (titled Haste) is so acoustic-intensive, without being boring. And I like that the album art is so homespun without being predictable; an …
Ten Must-Have Singer Songwriter Albums from Bandcamp
The label of “singer songwriter” gets bandied about by a lot of different people with a lot of different meanings. So for this list let me be clear; what I mean is that these folks wrote these songs themselves and now they’re singing …
Album Review: Those Willows – Three Books EP
Some people throw around the label “folk” for the strangest things, but Those Willows use backing strings, guitars, stand up bass, and something that sounds like it might be a mandolin… and their vocals are harmonized bliss. They are a folk band, of …
YouTube Gem: Aviation and the War – “Haste”
We have a review of Aviation and the War’s album coming soon. But to hold you off until then, we wanted to show you this incredible video. It shows how minimalist rock can really pull some powerful punches. It’s not the size of …
