NEWS ROUNDUP: New Singles, Bob Dylan, & Mitski
There was a ton of great new music released this week. Here’s four of the best singles we heard.
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LIVE REVIEW: Cass McCombs @ Bowery Ballroom
Of the many adjectives one could foist upon musicians, “pure” does not top the heap. And yet no word could ring more true when describing Cass McCombs’ set at the Bowery Ballroom last Thursday. And when I say “pure,”...
VIDEO REVIEW: Cass McCombs “Unearthed”
The contents of Cass McCombs‘ long and winding double album Big Wheel and Others fall into one of two categories. About half are capital-s Songs, with verses and choruses, beginnings, middles, and ends. The rest of the collection expands, with mesmerizing slowness, to...
AudioFemme’s Best of 2013
From elaborate roll-outs to surprise releases, 2013 was a banner year for comebacks, break-outs, break-ups, and overnight sensations. The fact that the most oblique content could cause rampant controversy to reverberate through the blogosphere turned every song into a...
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Cass McCombs “Big Wheel
Back in October, enigmatic folk artist Cass McCombs released his seventh full-length, Big Wheel and Others, a double album that led us through hypnotic rhythm cycles and tangential, but beautiful, guitar passages, intimate if shadowed vocal lines, and lyrics...