Heart of Love is Phoebe Legere’s 17th album and the seminal American songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, has just broken into the Roots Music Radio chart’s top 20 with this collection.

Matt and Kim New Glow (Harvest Records) Brooklyn duo Pratt graduates Matt and Kim return with New Glow, a less cheesy version of […]

The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (Capitol Records) There are some notably different flavors in The Decemberists’ new […]

John Vanderslice John Vanderslice Plays Diamond Dogs (Dead Oceans) An album whose very existence poses questions and offers a few answers, John […]

Scout Niblett It’s Up to Emma (Drag City) Warped like a surrealist dream, It’s Up to Emma is the newest record from […]

Maybe it was the clink and clatter of drink and chatter, but time seemed to stretch last week at City Winery. In […]

The East River turned itself upside down over the Lower East Side on Delancey, men and women huddling under broken umbrellas, waiting […]

Crystal Fighters Cave Rave (Atlantic Records) Crystal Fighters is a sextet from London with an overabundance of happy tunes on their latest […]

Ducktails The Flower Lane (Domino Recording Co.) Something about this album strikes me as a collaborative effort, maybe because it appears to […]

The Avett Brothers The Carpenter (Universal Republic Records) Indie folksters The Avett Brothers are back with their sixth full-length album, The Carpenter. As […]