This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Big Country, Big Thief, Lake Street Dive, the Jayhawks and a few others thrown in for kicks.

Terra Lightfoot, from Ontario, Canada, hits my ear as a cross between Melissa Etheridge and Heart.

This Playlist consists of songs I've intended to write about for a while but for whatever reason have yet to make it out of my notebook.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Patto, Deer Tick, Dave Matthews Band (with Warren Haynes), and Elise Davis.

Calling all Black Crowes fans! Run, don’t walk, to your phone, laptop, record store — however you roll — and check out The Magpie Salute.

The Suitcase Junket is a one-man band that's equal parts folk, blues, bluegrass, and when Matt Lorenz kicks up the distortion, punk.

A.A. Bondy’s music is spare, dark and penetrating. Much of it features just Bondy on acoustic guitar singing of sadness and loss.

Bonnie Bishop has evolved from a self-described country singer trying to sell beer at Texas dance halls to a bluesy soul singer.

T Bird and the Breaks blend all kinds of styles to create what the band calls “chunk” music: equal parts funk, hip-hop, and rock ‘n’ roll.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features David Crosby, the Seratones, Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey, and the Rolling Stones.

This Playlist includes tracks from the artists featured on Fine Tuning over the blog’s first six months.

Hollis Brown is a new band with an old sound. Any band naming itself after a Dylan song and covering an entire VU album is worth hearing.

Slobberbone’s hard-driving rock sound softened with a whiff of country twang is just what I needed to re-acclimate to the U.S.

It's difficult to write about any aspect of Chilean culture without making reference to the Pinochet dictatorship. And so it is with music.

Prior to the REC festival, my knowledge of Latin American music could be summed up in three words: Miami Sound Machine. I've evolved mucho.

My latest musical obsession is Lucero, a band from Memphis that has been around since the early 2000s but that I discovered only recently.

This Old, New, Borrowed and Blue set features Cory Branan, the Wood Brothers, Shovels & Rope and John Fullbright.

If you're stuck in a musical rut check out Shinyribs. Their eclectic blend of sounds will surely light up some part of your auditory cortex.

This Playlist consists of songs I've intended to write about for a while but for whatever reason have yet to make it out of my notebook.

I was unmoved when the Clash broke up, believing Joe Strummer had nothing left in the tank. Man alive was I wrong.