Reviews
Hawaiian Cowboy
‘‘Ohana’ is the Hawaiian word for ‘family’. And slack key is a form of tuning and playing guitar developed in...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Vida
Vida is Ana Tijoux’s first album in a decade. That does not mean the Chilean rapper was hiding from the...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Deep Sea Vents
Deep Sea Vents is a self-consciously quirky, sometimes witty and occasionally beguiling ten-track album of songs by Bruce Hornsby in...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
All My Friends
A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Way Highly
A salty dog of an album, Oklahoma roots musician and one-man band Brad Fielder’s new album (or long-ish EP), Way...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Needlefall
The music on Needlefall is borne of one region, but two worlds. It finds Durham, North Carolina guitar- and-fiddle duo...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Little Sun
Austin, Minnesota’s Charlie Parr is leaving behind the country-blues derivations of his earliest works. For all their ramshackle charms, albums...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Algo-Ritmo: Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004-2024
This compilation of 24 songs spans the two-decade career of Mexican Institute of Sound, aka Camilo Lara. Named as one...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
La Negra – Tribute to Mercedes Sosa
Claudia Meyer’s fourth solo album is a tribute to Argentinian folk singer Mercedes Sosa, affectionately known as ‘La Negra’. Meyer’s...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Sun Without the Heat
New Orleans-based Leyla McCalla is known for making moving, socially conscious music that takes in all her various influences, from...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
