Articles by Kyle Mullin

Little Simz

Stillness in Wonderland

PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2016

Little Simz is an anomaly, exuding humble vulnerability and steely confidence in the same breath. On her latest full-length, Stillness in W...

BJ the Chicago Kid

The Lost Files: Cuffing Season

PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2016

While Marvin Gaye's expertise was, famously, sexual healing, BJ the Chicago Kid looks to be laying lyrical claim to lovelorn wounds on his...

Jonny Fritz

Sweet Creep

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2016

The line between eerie mysteriousness and downright silliness is compellingly blurred on Sweet Creep, the new LP by beloved alt-country sco...

Skyzoo and Apollo Brown Do Old School the Hard Way on 'The Easy Truth'

PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2016

A lesser producer would have been left at a loss by the ramshackle surroundings: a Philips stereo with blown speakers, a 20-year-old HP des...

Shovels & Rope

Little Seeds

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2016

Shovels & Rope offer a raw yet rollicking, hard rocking yet rootsy take on Americana with their new album, Little Seeds. The Charleston, So...

Zachary Lucky

Everywhere A Man Can Be

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2016

"I've seen a thing or two," sings Zachary Lucky on "Lost My Way (Now and Then)," a standout track from his new LP Everywhere A Man Can Be....

Craig David

Following My Intuition

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2016

Little is more simplistic, mundane and unoriginal in pop music than counting to five, and yet Craig David turns that unexceptional sequence...

John Prine

For Better, Or Worse

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2016

Long before he became a lauded alt-country singer-songwriter, John Prine had a much humbler vocation: a mailman, thinking up would-be hit s...