Waxahatchee –
‘Saint Cloud’. Katie Crutchfield just gets better and better, changing themes, transforming, shining brighter, becoming brilliant. While far from country, it is an album in the grip of the genre, produced with warmth, texture and subtlety.
‘Lilacs’ uses a guitar sound reminiscent of Reggie Young on
‘Suspicious Minds’. ‘Can’t Do Much’, possibly the standout track, sounds like The Cranberries one moment and gentle Creedence in presence the next. Great voice, great tunes and the record
Waxahatchee will always have to try to beat.
S.G. Goodman – ‘Old Time Feeling’. The warmest reverb guitar opens
‘Space in Time’ before Goodman’s bold voice bursts out introducing this debut album. Three songs in and we’ve heard doo wop, rock n roll and country. It’s alt country at its core, but explores so much more. Learning to sing in church, she turned to Jim James to produce and proclaims – from a left wing, gay perspective – the social i
5 things to do this week: Newberg Nutcracker, Outdoor skate, and Jerry Joseph live stream
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
The year 2020 may be behind us, but pandemic restrictions remain. We’ve put together a list of upcoming events that includes both live and virtual things to do this week. Get out and roller skate or watch for sea life, or stay in and watch a concert or ballet.
Visitors peer out at the ocean from the stone shelter atop Cape Perpetua on the central Oregon coast. Whale watching season is in full swing. Oregonian file photo. Jamie Francis/The Oregonian
New Year’s Day whale watching
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Albums of the Year 2020: Songhoy Blues - Optimisme
Mali’s unlikely musical superstars speak truth to power while moving hips and feet
by Guy OddySaturday, 19 December 2020
Songhoy Blues: upbeat and unrelentingly positive
If there’s been one thing that has coloured the UK music scene in 2020, it’s been the lack of any type of performance in front of a living, breathing and sweating audience for much of the year. Who was to know back at the beginning of January that we would only have about nine weeks to get in all of our gig-going? Fortunately, I managed to see a handful of concerts during this time and the most glorious by a country mile was Slipknot’s show in Birmingham.