I don’t know where you are, but people in Cleveland are getting a little bit antsy about autumn coming. A whole bunch of my friends have been complaining about the warm sun, the gentle breezes, the green leaves still on the trees. They …
Category: Best of Lists
Greg Jones’s Best of 2014
Here are co-founder Greg Jones’s best songs and albums of 2014. Top 10 Songs of 2014 #10: The Native Sibling – “Place to Rest/Keep on Running” No matter how many times I hear this song, I continue to have a visceral, deeply personal response …
Casey Karger’s Best of 2014
It’s that time of year again! Without further ado, here are staff writer Casey Karger’s best songs and albums of 2014. Top 10 Songs of 2014 #10: Mustered Courage – “Standing By Your Side” While it’s rare for us to find really solid, …
Kate Bee’s Best of 2014
It’s that time of year again! Without further ado, here are staff writer Kate Bee’s best songs and albums of 2014. Top 10 Songs of 2014 (in no particular order) Bad Suns – “Salt” This song would even get Baptists to dance. Great …
Matt Simon’s Best of 2014
It’s that time of year again! Without further ado, here are staff writer Matt Simon’s best songs and albums of 2014. Top 10 Songs of 2014 #10: John Mark McMillan “Love at the End” There is no set category to place the music of …
Ben Abraham – Sirens – Flawless vocals lead a deceptively deep album
If you’ve ever been on Ear To The Ground’s site before, you’ve probably heard Greg or I blathering on about Ben Abraham. Whether we were posting on of his phenomenal covers or acoustic originals, we could and can not get enough of him. …
Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music – The Rebirth of Country?
I am most definitely not a fan of country music. Don’t get me wrong, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, and the like will always have a special place in my heart, but Toby Keith is one of the worst musicians of the …
Free Music Friday! Tossing Copper
I recently revisited this delightful EP and found it to be even more mesmerizing than I initialy remembered. It’s perhaps the most lyrically brilliant thing that I’ve heard since we started this from start to finish. Give this the 25 minutes that it …
Best of 2013: Lisa’s Top 10 Albums
The year that’s coming to a close was a great one for music, as well as a lot of other things, and these were my favorite albums of the year. These aren’t in any particular order, and not all of them were ones …
Best of 2013: Greg’s Top 10 Albums
It’s almost cliche to have a top ten list anymore, but it’s just something we love to do around here. It’s pretty incredible to find an album early in the year and have it last. It’s also wonderful to find something in early …
