Reviews
Maravilhosamente Bem
The revival of interest in global 80s music continues with the nostalgic third album by Brazilian singer-songwriter and Bala Desejo...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Room on the Porch
American blues giants Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ first collaborated eight years ago on an album called TajMo, their combined...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Inconcreto & Asociados
Colombia’s pioneering Frente Cumbiero are proud tropicanibalismos, a radical, evolutionary outfit dedicated to preserving the traditional cumbia and porro rhythms...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Ni Hui – Voices of the Forest
There is a running joke in Brazil that the state of Acre doesn’t really exist, an idea based on its...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Froggy’s Demise
EZRA is what you get when a group of ridiculously talented musicians combine all of the different “grasses” – bluegrass,...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Doing Things Right
Jim Kweskin & The Berlin Hall Saturday Night Revue
Younger listeners may recall the name-check of Jim Kweskin by Bob Dylan in Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
RAIO
Brazilian producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Felipe Puperi delivers sonic gold on his third album as Tagua Tagua. Released via Brooklyn’s...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Wild and Clear and Blue
What started out in 2014 looking like a one-off or short-lived supergroup of Americana singer-songwriters – Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Believer
Three albums in and it feels like Blue Cactus, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, have finally found themselves. In truth,...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
I Feel It Once Again
Chicago-based fiddle player and singer-songwriter Anne Harris boasts a CV diverse enough to not only include many years touring and...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
