Patty Griffin: The Loneliest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.

By Rob O'Connor at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

I can’t neatly break down for you what drives Ms. Griffin, but I do know that her best songs are among the loneliest...  read more

Alice Smith

By Steve LaBate at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Anchored by deep roots and wrapped in a modern sheen, a new musical heavyweight has arrived.   read more

The Honeydogs

By Bud Scoppa at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Another stunner from one of rock's most underappreciated bands  read more

Horse Feathers

By Amanda Petrusich at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Portland, Ore. duo plays dreamy scrap-folk soundtrack to winter hibernation  read more

Ron Sexsmith - Time Being [ironworks music]

By Rob O'Connor at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Sexsmith may change producers and alter instrumentation, but his songwriting remains a carefully measured exercise...  read more

Suburban Kids with Biblical Names

By David Greenberger at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

...specialize in ditties with arrangements that offer a homespun pop extravaganza—Tin Pan Alley tunesmithing and...  read more

Brand New

By Grant Shellen at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Former pop-punkers keep growing… and rocking faces  read more

13 Tzameti

By Sean Edgar at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Nerve-fraying thriller turns Russian roulette into parlor game  read more

Melody Gardot

By Andy Whitman at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Gardot’s horn-like vocal timbre and sense of swing lift them far beyond the ordinary.  read more

Pavement: Time-Tested and True

By Andrew Earles at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Nineties indie-rock classic loses no luster after a decade.  read more

Lucinda Williams

By Mark Kemp at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Nearly a decade later, it's an Americana classic.  read more

Climbing The (Demonic) Corporate Ladder

By Brad Watson at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Mailer's first novel in 12 years imagines Hitler's youth - sort of.  read more

James Kochalka

By Joel Hartse at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

A magnum opus of everyday life continues - with diaper rash!  read more

Charlie LeDuff

By David McPherson at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Who exactly is the American Man?  read more

An Unreasonable Man

By Jesse Jarnow at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

The feel-good-then-feel-really-really-bad documentary of the year  read more

Avenue Montaigne

By Kristina Feliciano at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

The surprise comes in the warmth of the performances (especially the aging theater usher who lives in a colorful flat plastered with pop-music posters...  read more

Border Radio

By Andy Beta at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

Legendary indie rockers try hand at acting in 16mm indie film  read more

American Slapstick

By Tim Sheridan at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

There is no form of humor more elemental than slapstick. A purely visual style...  read more

Jazz Giants Fill The Small Screen

By Paste Staff at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2007

But when he shuts his eyes, tilts his head back and sings “Time After Time” in that tender ache of a voice, it’s mesmerizing  read more

Climbing The (Demonic) Corporate Ladder

By Brad Watson at 12:00 AM on January 31, 2007

Norman Mailer's first novel in 12 years imagines Hitler's youth-sort of.  read more