Marco Benevento and his trio sound right at home on Barn Burner: Live at Levon’s, his second live release from Woodstock, N.Y., where he’s lived for more than a decade. For the better part of that decade, Benevento’s trio has included talented and energetic bassist Karina Rykman, who in 2019 connected Benevento with her bandmate, […]
A great indie-rock album can shake you out of your malaise and make you feel something—not only on an abstract atomic level that you can’t always articulate, but also on a more practical level where you want to high-five your best friend while triumphantly blazing donuts in the parking lot of your old high school. […]
Faye Webster’s indie-pop is elegant yet comically absurd, a confusing soup of tenderness, detachment and stylistic non-sequiturs. (Alt-country pedal steel? Sure! Rapper cameos? You betcha. R&B hooks? Naturally.) The Wild West of streaming has conditioned us all to say “fuck genre,” a noble and inspiring mission statement in many ways. But even in this post-everything […]