Hey Marseilles Lines We Trace Onto/Thirty Tigers Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stasr Hey Marseilles are from Seattle and it’s easy to tell. The dozen songs that make up Lines We Trace are saturated with a slippery shimmer, like the light that bounces off the bay of their wet, wintry homeland. The opening track, “Tides,” [...]

Since the quintet of Canadians called The Deep Dark Woods emerged from their home in Saskatoon in 2005, they’ve slowly gathered a loyal following, amassed a slew of awards and won the respect everyone who digs a beautifully crafted song. Behind a majority of the tunes that have appeared on their four albums is singer [...]

Old Crow Medicine Show Carry Me Back (ATO Records) Rating: 4 stars What’s great about the new album from Old Crow Medicine Show? Well, everything, really. As they have since they released their debut way back in 2004, their mastery of the idiom is on full display, their songwriting is equal to the great names [...]

From his early days working in his Dad’s drum shop through his years with the Grateful Dead to his diverse work as a solo artist and ethnomusicologist, Mickey Hart has been fascinated with the inner workings of rhythm, melody and harmony. His latest album, Mysterium Tremendum, combines the lyric poetry of Robert Hunter, the rhythmic [...]