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4.8

Brothers Brown ‘Dusty Road’ Album Review

Randall Parrish

March 19, 2016

Popular Music, Rock

Brothers Brown are a group of four veteran consummate musicians who craft an auspicious debut with Dusty Road on Funky Joint Records distributed by 335 Records. This brotherly effort blends strains of soulful b...

Chris Stapleton

4.5

Best Debut Album of 2015: Chris Stapleton ‘Traveller’

December 20, 2015

Country, Popular Music

Great songwriting teamed with powerful, emotional vocals make this an unforgettable debut album.

Julia Holter

The 10 Best Contemporary Albums of 2015

Vivascene Staff

December 16, 2015

It was an outstanding year for music, particularly in the Contemporary Pop/Rock/Folk categories. We highlight our faves in the first of our Year End Review series.

Rumer

4.2

First Steps: Rumer ‘Seasons of My Soul’

December 11, 2015

If this debut album signalled anything about Rumer's future, it was that there is still an audience for natural, uncontrived and unprocessed singing.

Bob Dylan

4.8

Bob Dylan, ‘Another Self Portrait (1969-71)’

November 21, 2015

Popular Music, Rock

'Self-Portrait': Bob Dylan's first "rough patch" gets the archival treatment. His worst album? Hold your tongue until you've heard these recordings.

Steely Dan

Steely Dan: Timeless, Brilliant and Deranged

November 19, 2015

No songwriting duo ever constructed a more perfect cage for their session musicians than Fagen and Becker.

Edmund Fitzgerald lifeboat

4.6

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – 40th Anniversary

November 10, 2015

Folk, Popular Music

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the tragic maritime accident commemorated in Gordon Lightfoot's unforgettable ballad.

Living Color

3.8

First Steps: Living Colour, ‘Vivid’

November 5, 2015

Popular Music, Rock

A classic black rock album that still excites the listener, decades after its release.