by Matt Kelchner Fresh off the release of their much talked about new album Shriek, Baltimore duo Wye Oak came into Philadelphia Monday night to show the city what the buzz was all about. The central sound of the band has dramatically shifted between their highly touted 2011 Read More

by Michele Zipkin Priscilla Ahn’s latest record, This is Where We Are, proves a fairly prominent deviation from the majority of her previous output. Stalwart fans all know her as an electro-acoustic, folk-forward songstress, spouting poetic lyrics and singing those airy, Read More

by Jane Roser There were several reasons D.C. singer/songwriter/ WAMA nominee/ 2012-2013 Strathmore Artist in Residence Owen Danoff listed as to why his album release show at Virginia’s Jammin’ Java on Sunday night would be amazing. They included the fact that it Read More

South Rail Stars Reviewed by: Jane Roser   D.C. based Americana/rock band South Rail’s sophomore EP, Stars, is aptly named because that’s exactly what this band is. Their album paints an authentic portrait of a bygone era when folks went to barn raisings on Read More

Owen Danoff Twelve Stories Reviewed by: Jane Roser   I can always gauge how good an album is by my friend’s reactions when I have it as background music playing in my car. Usually it’s tuned out when the conversation starts, but D.C. singer/songwriter Owen Read More

Lykke Li I Never Learn Reviewed by: Brian Roser   First there was ABBA, then there was Roxette, now out of Sweden comes the music of Li Lykke Timotej Svensson Zachrisson. For the sake of promoting her work, however, she wisely shortened it to Lykke Li. I Never Learn is the Read More