Paul Shugrue

Sufjan’s Stevens new album “Javelin” is a career defining work

Wilco’s nearly thirty year history has yielded some classic albums but it’s the band’s ability to reflect the present day in their music that has set them apart. On their 13 th album “Cousin” they offer some reflections on the world today and their inability to understand it.

Lowland Hum is a duo from Charlottesville whose voices blend together with ethereal perfection and their understated instrumentation has been their trademark. Their newest album “From Self With Love” arrives after a tumultuous year for them

Getting dropped by your record company when your name is The Record Company had to be difficult for the band to deal with but on their fourth album, called “The Fourth Album” they get back to the basics of what they started out as; being a kick-ass, original blues-rock band

Slowdive’s new album “Everything is Alive” is an unlikely success story

Old Crow Medicine Show’s new album is a quick follow-up the one they released last year and while that was more politically oriented, “Jubillee” is an album of songs with more common themes like romance, grief, reuniting with old friends and...cockfights

Hozier is not an ordinary rock star. He’s literate, adventurous and earnest and he continues to amaze with his third album “Unreal Unearth"

Bethany Cosentino’s solo debut album “Natural Disaster” poses the question; is it worth it to improve ourselves if the world isn’t around long enough for us to benefit?

Molly Tuttle knows a good thing when she hears it. The new album “City of Gold” by Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway is a quick follow-up to last year’s “Crooked Tree” which won the grammy award for bluegrass album of the year. For the new album she returns with the same crew

From the opening song of the new album “Sticks and Stones” by Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, it’s clear he doesn’t care what people are saying about him.