‘Under Cover’ review: Valerie June releases a delightful EP covering classics

If you aren’t privy to Valerie June, she is an extremely well-rounded musician who seamlessly blends folksy charm with down-to-earth blues. The Tennessee native is a poet at heart, and has been releasing music since 2006 with a Grammy nomination…

‘Exit Wounds’ review: The Wallflowers make a powerful comeback

Exit Wounds is a real work of art. A perfect example that there is beauty to be found within pain.

Top 50 Best Albums of 2020

What will you remember the most about 2020? Better question: Do you want to remember 2020? We can’t blame you if you don’t. It’s been a very bad year for many reasons. In the world of music, this year saw…

The TYF Monthly Mixtape: September 2020

In our TYF Monthly Mixtape feature, our music writers share Spotify playlists of the songs – new and old – they’ve had on repeat for the last month. Beth Winchester September was a very long and very distressing and stressing…

Album Review: Bob Dylan – “Rough and Rowdy Ways”

Bob Dylan’s 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, finds the aging Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter looking to the past and settling comfortably there both in terms of sound and subject matter.  Although it has been eight years since Bob Dylan…

From The Record Crate: Bob Dylan – “Bringing It All Back Home” (1965)

Bob Dylan’s fifth studio album Bringing It All Back Home was born from an isolated writing binge that saw the musician’s poetic nature become visual with heavy influence coming from Robert Johnson. The original production plan set sail over 55…

Rolling Thunder Revue Movie Review: Bob Dylan has a laugh in sprawling tour doc

Bob Dylan is really good at practical jokes. As honest and detailed as his lyrics were when he performed them, Dylan looked into the lenses of cameras and eyes of journalists interviewing him with a look of either juvenile amusement…