Daily Newsletter, March 2, 2024

HANNAH FRANCES KEEPER OF THE SHEPHERD RUINATION RECORD CO. From the moment “Bronwyn” opens up on  Keeper of The Shepherd, the new album by Hannah Frances, you realize she has been immersed with music since she can probably remember. There is not only the confidence and experience felt here, but also the emotional connection with […]

FUR TRADER EXECUTIONALAND INDEPENDENT Andrew Pelletier isn’t exactly a fur trader, although he uses that moniker to release his music. On the other hand, he just might be, if you are replacing real furs with some cozy, fuzzy, truly melodic bedroom pop/country-tinged rock that he just came up with on his most recent album Executionland.  […]

TISH MELTON WHEN WE’RE OLDER CMND SHFT It seems Brandi Carlisle has an acute sense of where good musical values lie. A big name in her own right, she was recently involved in the revival of Joni Mitchell’s career, and is also working with younger, emerging artists. One of those is Tish Melton, who under […]

JULIEN CHANG HOME FOR THE MOMENT TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS No, this is not the fashion designer some might be familiar with, but a singer songwriter who has two quite solid album from 2019 and 2022 behind him, coming up with this relatively brief, but at the same time quite musically detailed 4-song EP aptly titled Home […]

All things considered, it was a sparse month in terms of quantity. But there was some good stuff at the top, including Laura Jane Grace's Hole In My Head,

Celebrating an influential alt-rock classic.

This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork

And why you should see them play the whole album live this year…

"A free-wheeling novel about political and sexual repression.”

Though Jane Austen hasn't published a novel since 1817 — with her death that same year being a reasonable excuse — her appeal as a literary brand remains practically unparalleled in its class.

On Thursday, Lykke Li released a cover of Johnny Cash's song 'Ring of Fire,' which will appear in Netflix's 'Damsel' starring Millie Bobby Brown.