Alt-country band Public Water Supply has not one or two, but three songwriters, all of whom contributed to its debut album, out Jan. 13.
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Jackson Cavalier goes post-Americana with ‘Defend Your Illusion’
Sharp songwriting keeps the sound steady amid shifting styles on “Defend Your Illusion,” Jackson Cavalier’s new album with The Big Dead Waltz.
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HomeStage: Benton Sillick of The Heavy Love Trust
Benton Sillick of the alt-country project The Heavy Love Trust plays the only song he’s written during the quarantine for HomeStage.
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ALT-COUNTRY | Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller is the king of the murder ballad, the prince of melancholy, the champion of the love song. Best known from his position leading the charge of the alt-country darlings Old 97’s, Miller is one of the precious few who legitimately can call his music Americana and mean it. In a sense, Old 97’s […]
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Album review: ‘Take Care of My Love’
Katie Jones ‘Take Care of My Love’ Self-released katiejones.bandcamp.com Katie Jones’s new album, “Take Care of My Love,” is a study in patience between its analog recording and the digital work that went in afterwards to complete it, as well as patience with the rural strain that envelops the listener. “Take Care of My Love” […]
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Aaron DeRuyter fishes for country twang
For a while there, Rochester musician Aaron DeRuyter figured the best way to describe his music was by calling it country. The thing is he didn’t really like country … or did he? “Eventually it occurred to me that I did actually like country,” DeRuyter says. “And I was playing alt-country before I knew it […]
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The Black Lillies are there to please
Knoxville, Tennessee, band The Black Lillies is a twangin’ modern primitive. Goosing its alt-country ruminations with a wide spectrum, from bluegrass to soul and rock ‘n’ roll, this band serves to soothe the same savage it fuels in its audiences nationwide. The band’s latest, “Hard to Please,” couples the lyrical introspection familiar on the band’s […]
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Desert Noises
Tim Braley knows a quality band when he hears one. The co-singer and guitarist of local group Elephino has shared the stage with dozens of bands, including Desert Noises, a Provo, Utah-based rock act, which has made Rochester a regular tour stop among its East Coast swings. “Desert Noises was solid, mistake free, and fluid,” […]
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Walt Wilkins And The Mystiqueros
Songwriters like Walt Wilkins have fine bands like The Mystiqueros behind them to help the medicine go down. Now, some of you that are fans of this tenacious Texas troubadour’s tunes a la carte can tolerate the heartache and honesty. Perhaps you temper it with a shot. But his songs’ tug and mule-kick remain; “Trains […]
