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Matthew Friedberger (the Fiery Furnaces) Talks John Mayer’s Paradise Valley

By Matthew Friedberger | April 20, 2015

I won't argue it, I'll just assume: John Mayer is a mainstream guy, as I might have even seen him quoted as saying. The effectiveness of his...

By Peter Holsapple | February 24, 2015

Veteran country-rockers the Mavericks didn’t reinvent the wheel on their new album. But they did something almost as good.

By Charlie Starr | September 18, 2014

As long as we have songwriters like Justin Townes Earle, there’s no reason to worry about the fate of country music.

By Prince Paul | April 23, 2014

Back in the mid 2000’s, a friend of mine told me a black guy who raps has the #2 album on the Billboard country chart. I was like, “Oh sh*t!...

By Peter Holsapple | January 13, 2014

We never knew how good we had it. There was a more civilized time in the latter part of the 20th century when Rosanne Cash was a fixture on...

By Peter Holsapple | August 7, 2013

Some music comes along at a ripe emotional moment. It serves its purpose by distracting from the brittle feelings of what’s actually happening to...