Album of the Week

Kali Malone’s latest, Living Torch, is balm for the world-weary soul.

I have a thing for improvisations on church organ. And cello. And Iceland.

It’s official. I love Porridge Radio.

The title track from S.G. Goodman’s latest, Teeth Marks, has been playing in my head most mornings since my first listen, acting as the soundtrack to my waking ritual.

If you want a perfect slice of searching searing guitar laden sound, look no further than Z.O.A and BORIS’ collaborative effort Refrain. And I do mean perfect.

Eight members strong and five years in the making, caroline’s self-titled debut on Rough Trade brings to mind that famous Emily Dickinson line—I died for Beauty – but was scarce.

We invest in music and the people who make it in many ways.

Belladonna is composer and guitarist Mary Halvorson and The Mivos Quartet performing five Halvorson compositions, her first for string quartet.

The groove. Sometimes its all I want, all I need.

The Weather Station is Tamara Lindeman, also known as Tamara Hope, a Canadian musician and actress who makes music a few steps astride the typical. Steps that I feel are in the right direction.

Kenyan composer and multi-instrumentalist Nyokabi Kariũki could not return to her home in Kenya due to the pandemic, so she recalled special places and set them to sound.

Nilüfer Yanya’s PAINLESS is a beautiful infectious romp, dancing from pain to healing like a butterfly in a blast zone.

“What kind of music do you like?” Dangerous.

King Hannah is Liverpool-based duo Craig Whittle and Hannah Merrick and I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me is their debut LP, released in February of this year on Berlin-based City Slang, and it is chock full of badass fun.

I can still remember the first time I heard Flirtin’ with Disaster as we cruised down the interstate back in ’79.