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“I’m trying to just let myself be.”

On Best Coast’s newest project, Always Tomorrow, Bethany Cosentino is finally given the chance to reflect on the past decade of her life and musical career. (more…)

Reeling from her band’s breakup and her divorce, Grace Potter needed something to blame. She chose music. Frustrations mounted and amid personal struggles, her artistic process came to a halt. With the birth of her son, she eventually began the process of forgiveness, and in doing so created her latest album, Daylight. (more…)

For Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s new album Temple, the band captures an innovative sonic blend of Vietnamese dance and American rock music. While a definite departure from the group’s previous work, bandleader Thao Nguyen says this release is the most personal of her life. (more…)

Following the release of her first album, Emotions and Math, Glaspy toured nonstop for over two years. On tour, she says, “you’re in a vacuum all the time,” always at a venue or travelling to the next. After the tour, she was relieved to have some time to decompress. She spent the next six months in upstate New York, where she took time to ground herself and contemplate her next project. (more…)

Steve Earle & The Dukes new album, Ghosts of West Virginia, is a theatrical recollection of a fatal mining disaster that killed 29 men in 2010. An outspoken liberal and leftist thinker, Earle attempted to step away from the echo chamber and make an album that would bridge the political divide in America.
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Katie Pruitt’s debut album Expectations was just released this spring, but her musical experience dates all the way back to childhood, where she grew up singing in church with her mom, who also taught her the basics of guitar, and then also listening to bands like the Eagles with her dad, and this blend of styles is evident on her music, which broadly fits in the Americana category, but features elements of indie rock, folk, and even a country vibe, perhaps influenced by Pruitt’s current home base of Nashville. Rather than use a genre, Pruitt however, prefers to call it simply a songwriter record. (more…)

Katie Crutchfield of indie project Waxahatchee has been staying busy with Netflix and Instagram like most of us, but she managed to channel some productivity into a new album earlier this year. Contrasting her former turbulent, guitar heavy sounds, Saint Cloud allows for Crutchfield’s voice to really come through. (more…)

While many artists chose to delay album releases in the wake of COVID-19, British singer-songwriter Laura Marling made the unorthodox decision to release Song For Our Daughter four months ahead of schedule. (more…)