Ratboys on Tiny Desk
[NPR] Not many bands can pull off an eight-minute rocker at the Tiny Desk. For more than 15 years, the members of Ratboys have honed their craft and earned the space to stretch out. "We've been watching these Tiny Desk concerts since back in the family desktop computer days," Julia Steiner says between songs. With excellent guitar ...
Lambchop: Punching the Clown Review – Spectral, Spellbindingly Ambiguous Stirring of US History
[Guardian] Sounding weathered but undimmed, Kurt Wagner feels as if he’s standing right in front of you as he sings superb, choir-swathed songs that invite and unsettle hirty-two years on from their debut album – and 26 from Nixon, the gorgeous country/soul confection that brought “Nashville’s most fucked-up country band” to a wider audience – Lambchop ...
Alabama Shakes Built a Kingdom in the Chaos
[Paste Magazine] After nearly a decade apart, Brittany Howard, Heath Fogg, and Zac Cockrell found their way back to each other and into the studio for I Must Be Dreaming. By Grant Sharples Brittany Howard said she had to talk with the guys first. That was the stock answer she gave to every journalist who would inevitably ...