September 29, 2025
Trouble in Paradise Listening Post 390. Alison Krauss and her band Union Station are the gold standard for bluegrass and also a study in contrasts—so it hardly strains logic that the group’s latest album begins with a dead end. Floating on Krauss’s immaculate...
July 15, 2025
Heads or Tails Listening Post 389. Uusikuu’s sixth album has a pastoral title, but the group’s picnic basket has a false bottom, out of which emerges a cornucopia of song and delight. Led by Finnish singer-composers Laura Ryhänen and Mikko Kuisma, the ensemble also...
May 15, 2025
Streaming Memory Forward Listening Post 388. Cuimhne means “memory” in both Scottish Gaelic and Irish, and as the title track of Allt, Vol. II, it evokes calm mornings, warm afternoons and tranquil evenings (see videos). And like the human forces that shape our world,...
April 7, 2025
Unbreaking Tradition Listening Post 387. Old fashioned… We all recognize it as a term that can go either way—tired and retrograde or classic and true. Lucibela means it in the positive sense and, with her third album, her tender and commanding voice in Cape...
March 17, 2025
Round Trip Listening Post 386. Sauljaljui is a singer-songwriter-musician and a cultural icon of the Paiwan people, one of the indigenous Austronesian tribes living in Taiwan for 6,000 years before Chinese settlement began in the 17th century. She fashions songs from...
