The Felice Brothers Fort York, Toronto ON, September 17

Published Sep 18, 2016

Although their first couple of songs were marred by oppressively poor sound — all highs and lows, no warmth, a wall of undifferentiated inst...

Ween Fort York, Toronto ON, September 17

Published Sep 18, 2016

"We have a big brown set for ya," announced Dean Ween, perhaps rock music's most unlikely guitar hero. "Big and brown."   What the hell is...

Drive-By Truckers Fort York, Toronto ON, September 16

Published Sep 17, 2016

Emerging to the strains of the Clash's "Know Your Rights" — "This is a public service announcement with guitars!" — there could be little do...

John Moreland Fort York, Toronto ON, September 16

Published Sep 17, 2016

One of the most consistently impressive songwriters in Americana, Oklahoma's John Moreland has been quietly building a following among fans...

Margo Price Fort York, Toronto ON, September 16

Published Sep 17, 2016

One of the buzziest artists on the Americana scene, Margo Price debuted last year with her excellent Midwest Farmer's Daughter to great accl...

​An Essential Guide to Willie Nelson

Published Sep 15, 2016

One of the true masters of American music, Willie Nelson's gifts as a songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and performer are almost unparalleled...

Wilco Schmilco

Published Sep 07, 2016

Over their two-decades-plus run as one of America's most consistently rewarding bands, Wilco have rarely sounded as hushed, as restrained, a...

Dolly Parton Pure & Simple

Published Aug 17, 2016

Growing up in the fabulously named Locust Ridge, Tennessee, the young Dolly Parton developed both a desperate desire to overcome her dirt-fl...

Neil Young + Promise of the Real Earth

Published Jun 29, 2016

More barn, indeed.   Another in a string of rather startlingly batshit releases from one of popular music's most unlikely superstars, this...

The Tragically Hip Man Machine Poem

Published Jun 15, 2016

The Tragically Hip's 13th studio album is a darkly illuminated, late-career curveball likely to please and confound in equal measure. Rarely...

Brandy Clark Big Day in a Small Town

Published Jun 10, 2016

Already among the hottest songwriters in Nashville, Brandy Clark dropped her debut record 12 Stories in 2013 to nearly universal acclaim. A...

Various Artists / The Grateful Dead Day of the Dead

Published May 18, 2016

Jerry Garcia (possibly apocryphally) dubbed the post-war counterculture that he helped exemplify as "the plain old chaos of undifferentiated...

Jayhawks Paging Mr. Proust

Published Apr 29, 2016

Perhaps the most quietly influential Americana band of the past 30 years, Minnesota's Jayhawks never achieved the commercial success that ma...

Hayes Carll Lovers and Leavers

Published Apr 08, 2016

Arriving almost six years after his breakthrough KMAG YOYO and its terrific blend of humour, insight and heartache, this melancholy set from...

Margo Price Midwest Farmer's Daughter

Published Mar 23, 2016

The story goes that Margo Price hocked both her car and her wedding ring to raise the dough to record this debut album at the legendary SUN...

Jason Isbell Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, February 29

Published Mar 01, 2016

Jason Isbell has been riding an unlikely, but surely welcome, wave of popular attention these past several months. A recent Grammy winner fo...

Waco Brothers Going Down In History

Published Feb 24, 2016

After a blistering run of seven records in the late 1990s and the early part of this century, it's been over a decade since Chicago's best b...

Caleb Caudle Carolina Ghost

Published Feb 24, 2016

Before recording his third record, Winston-Salem native Caleb Caudle moved home from New Orleans, kicked the bottle and hunkered down to stu...

Josh Ritter Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, February 16

Published Feb 17, 2016

For 15 years or so now this poetic polymath from Moscow, Idaho has been touring at a frantic pace, writing and singing some of the most jaw-...

Tedeschi Trucks Band Let Me Get By

Published Jan 27, 2016

It's tough for great live bands to use the studio to their advantage. The Grateful Dead pretty much never figured it out, and the Allman Bro...