Articles by Sarah Greene

Veda Hille

Love Waves

PUBLISHED May 26, 2016

Veda Hille's Love Waves is about love — the life-altering, at-times crazy-making love of a spouse and new mother. It's the Vancouver songwr...

Beth Orton Explores Life After Life on 'Kidsticks'

PUBLISHED May 25, 2016

Beth Orton's sixth album (seventh if we're counting 1993's export-only Superpinkmandy) Kidsticks is being hailed as a return to the "folktr...

Kate Maki

Head in the Sand

PUBLISHED May 20, 2016

Sudbury songwriter Kate Maki draws heavily from her own tumultuous past on Head in the Sand, her softly stirring sixth album. Here, she's p...

Whitehorse

The Northern South Vol. 1

PUBLISHED May 6, 2016

The blues can be sinister or silly, sweet, spiritual or a total party; Whitehorse manage to capture all of that on The Northern South Vol....

Robbie Fulks Finds a Niche on 'Upland Stories'

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2016

Robbie Fulks did something different on Upland Stories — he tried to make something similar to his last album. For a veteran songwriter who...

Robbie Fulks

Upland Stories

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2016

Chicago-based songwriter Robbie Fulks enters into Upland Stories, his 12th album) via the descriptive, late-night ruminations of James Agee...

Violent Femmes

Back In the Sun

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2016

Violent Femmes' new album, their first since 2000's Freak Magnet, hearkens back to their classic early '80s recordings. We Can Do Anything...

Loretta Lynn

Raising Hell

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2016

It's been a long journey that has seen Loretta Lynn — who started life as a coal miner's daughter in Butcher Hollow, Van Lear, KY, was marr...