Seasoned Vermont roots band delivers an album loaded up with foot-stomping roadhouse-tested originals and a few softer, mellower surprises.

Charlie Parr looks inward and outward, forward and back on his contemplative new album.

The Jenkins Twins’ latest EP is short and oh so sweet, weaving countless musical influences together in a swoony mélange of Americana you can lose yourself in.

Recent Minnesota transplant Jake La Botz stunned the audience (including Carol) with his electrifying double set at Icehouse 7/21/2021.

The multimedia artist gives us a deeper look into his boldly optimistic and tender-hearted debut album, Shining Out.

On this Americana rocker’s new album, the problems of quarantine life never sounded so fun.

Minneapolis-based folk duo Bad Posture Club serenade the beautiful and terrible parts of life on their gorgeous second album.

Carol reviews Luke Callen’s new album, Hard Sardine, track by track, and Callen offers his insights into each song!

The Sapsuckers at Icehouse, Minneapolis

The Vermont Americana artist talks about her unusual life path and her brooding new EP, The Hour.

The new release Gild the Black Lily by Harlem-based Americana artist Queen Esther is an instant classic.

A nomadic artist's spiritual travels in lockdown

The Deep Dark Woods lives up to their name with beautiful, melancholic, trancelike folk music on their new album, Changing Faces.

Carol reminisces about one of her favorite musicians and the best Americana artist you’ve never heard of.

Learn about four recent Americana albums we love, by or featuring indigenous artists from the U.S. and Canada.

For many music fans (including us), allegations of sexual misconduct by artists are disturbing and upsetting. Carol collected thoughts of other fans and tackled the topic from the audience perspective.

We’re celebrating the art of the protest song in Americana music with 10 of our favorite songs of anger and hope.

Minneapolis-based artist Eli Gardiner talks about his latest album, The Fire and the Medicine, how he approaches songwriting, and more.

More than ‘just’ a show: Dispatches from the Cactus Blossoms concert at First Ave

On March 27, 2021, Carol and Jaclyn attended this very limited-seating show (which was also livestreamed). We hadn’t seen a show together since March 9, 2020, so it was an especially special night—even if it hadn’t been Carol’s favorite band playing, even if it wasn’t at the iconic First Avenue nightclub. So we both wanted to share our impressions of the concert.