Drug trip stories, like stories about car accidents or bad dates, make great icebreakers. Maybe that's why Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker's newest project,…
(Devendra Banhart's “Banded King Snake and Thunder Maiden”) Devendra Banhart's new album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, has my tag for record of the…
Devendra Banhart's latest bends and stretches, but doesn't break his spell
Listening to a cover of Journey's “Don't Stop Believin',” however skilled, can really give you the karaoke willies. Just as most sing-along nights have…
Jana Hunter's intimate sketches
Since before the birth of the paparazzi, cameras have fueled obsessions with entertainers. These days, though, the damn things are everywhere. When the lights…
Austin's Peter and the Wolf is fronted by one Red Hunter, a songwriter who gravitates toward back-porch, lo-fi folk traditions. On his first proper…
The latest, greatest acid-folk reissues
Folk mama Vashti Bunyan scores a hit, 35 years after her first album
Last month, the New York Times dropped heavy praise on a loosely framed sample of music hitting what one of my friends calls “the…
