Henry Carrigan

1 month ago | nodepression.com | Henry Carrigan

This has been a good year for Lola Kirke. In January, she released her memoir Wild West Village (Simon & Schuster), and she appeared in the movie Sinners, which hits IMAX theaters in April. And this week, Kirke released her third full-length album, Trailblazer, a swirling blend of country and rock.

1 month ago | nodepression.com | Henry Carrigan

These days, most music memoirs tend to be bleary-eyed and bloated chronicles in which artists recount who-slept-with-whom and tote up the quantity of the most mind-expanding, or mind-numbing, drugs swallowed or injected on tour. There’s a requisite tale of childhood, sometimes amidst ragged poverty and uncaring parents and sometimes in spite of supportive parents against whom the artists rebel. Then there’s the litany of life on the road and its pains and pleasures.

2 months ago | folkalley.com | Henry Carrigan

On her new album, Ghosts in the Garden, New England-based singer and songwriter Kris Delmhorst passes through the permeable borders of the physical and the spiritual, exploring in haunting vocals the ethereal and transitory character of life and the shadowy world that inhabits the gardens and seasons of our lives. Like the poems of Keats, Shelley, and Emily Dickinson, Delmhorst’s songs flourish as odes to impermanence and memory.

2 months ago | nodepression.com | Henry Carrigan

In the 1990s, numerous women rockers emerged on the popular music scene, flooding the airwaves of college and independent radio stations with alternative feminist rock and momentarily elevating these women in the rock pantheon.

2 months ago | folkalley.com | Henry Carrigan

On her new album A Tip Toe High Wire mandolinist and guitarist Sierra Hull dazzles us with her balancing act as she moves in sure-footed fashion across a high wire of bluegrass, folk, jazz, and old time music.