As someone that uses music as a way to portray my emotions, there’s a certain appreciation I have for artists who sing about vulnerable subjects that not everyone wants to talk about. For Nashville artist Ellen Starski, she does...

Nashville singer-songwriter Rob Snyder will release his forthcoming debut album, The Way That I Am, via EMPIRE’s Big Plans Records this June. The lead single and title track–premiering today on American Songwriter with an accompanying video–is a...

Hailey Whitters | The Dream | (Pigasus Records) 4.5 out of 5 Hailey Whitters cashes in the last of her creative currency - at least for the moment. “I came to...

Popular tastes in music tend to alternate every few years. When times are good and prosperous, a lot of musicians try to run against that current by putting out music with a keen sense of irony, writing songs veiled in...

It would be easy to define Algiers as an insurgent ensemble. After all, they named themselves after a city that was at the crossover of the revolutionary movement of the 1960s, a place where Black Panthers, Angela...

It's not uncommon for artists to change their musical style, reinvent themselves, and keep doing so more as time goes on. However, with ever-increasing changes, a corresponding amount of distance from one's original sound can make what an artist does...

“Up on the Roof” Written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King Early Tin Pan Alley songwriters, those who honed their craft during popular music’s gestational years of 1890 to 1910, delighted in themes of escape. “Meet Me To-night in Dreamland,” “Under...

Robert Cray | That’s What I Heard | (Nozzle/Thirty Tigers) 3 1/2 out of 5 stars After 20-some studio releases starting back in the 80s, the challenge at this stage of...

The T.J. Martell Foundation – the music industry’s leading nonprofit to fund innovative medical research focused on treatments and cures for cancer – topped its fundraising record at the 2020 Nashville Honors Gala, by surpassing $1 million. The landmark occasion celebrated...

Oozing some sticky ’90s grunge-punk, Maggie Denning willows I think I’m ready to let this go on opening track “Emotional Labor." Before you know it, she goes from whisper to screech on noisy “Fascist” where she's Past...

A powerful, borderline aggressive, yet empowering phrase and something that took songwriter Matthew McNeal years to realize and accept is now a mantra he lives by.  His newest release “Be Yourself,” is an intimate song rooted in...

Sierra Hull | 25 Trips | (Rounder Records) 4 out of 5 Maybe I’m beautifully out of place  And it won’t be long till I find my way At least that’s what you say This pensive query, posed in the...