(Self-released, CD)... Read more

(Animalville, CD)

Dirtminers' architect and front man Raph Worrick calls his band's American Typewriter "11-odd songs from a Vermontario carny." The album is draped in modern, slightly askew Americana, and throughout, Worrick comes across as a mountain boy trying his best at delicate pop.... Read more

(Self-released, CD)

There aren't a lot of places where two brothers from Virginia can feel at home playing traditional bluegrass. Vermont is one such locale, and Joe and John Cleary have comfortably settled into the Green Mountains' old-time scene.

Greasefire is the first Cleary Bros. release since 2002's Who's Been Here Since I've Been Gone.The new effort contains a good mix of barnburners and fireside tales of woe.... Read more

(King Hill Music, CD)... Read more

(GlennSource Records, CD)

As the spotlight on the jam-band scene grows dimmer, you have to wonder if bands like The Grift are the result or the cause of the genre's waning popularity. At a time when many groups are striving for something new and different, The Grift have released their second studio album, Life Beyond Aluminum. Unfortunately, it's a derivative melange of the worst aspects of the last 10 years in music.... Read more