Josh Ritter's "Sermon on the Rocks" coming October 16

Every Josh Ritter album is written with a new voice. It’s rare that an artist changes styles with each album while still maintaining exactly the things that make him unique, but Josh often pulls it off. Sure, the voice he used in his debut self-titled album wasn’t his, it was Bob Dylan’s, but basically since then, there’s been new characters singing to us every couple of years.

Album Review: Blitzen Trapper - "All Across This Land"

It’s hard to say what happened to Blitzen Trapper, because in reality, nothing happened to Blitzen Trapper. They were a topic of discussion at one point, and since then they’ve done nothing but release inventive, ambitious, and at-times wonderful albums at a near prolific rate (2012 was the first year we didn’t get new tracks from the band since 2006). Typically bands that explore as many different sounds as Eric Earley and his Oregon-based quintet have, from space cowboy punk music to psychedelic folk to country rap, to a full-album live cover of Neil Young’s Harvest, get more critical doting forced upon them.