This week on New Tracks on the Trail: • Iron & Wine have a habit of dropping companion EPs close on the heels of their full-length releases. In August they did it again with Weed Garden, a collection of six tracks that weren’t finished in time to make last year’s Grammy Award-nominated Beast Epic. Iron […]
New Tracks – 6/12
Critics are calling the new Amos Lee collection his most personal yet. If the tone of its lead-off single is indicative of the remaining nine tracks we would say that’s spot-on. Written about the Parkland High School shooting this past February – or, more precisely, its aftermath and the response of the students who study […]
Vinally Friday – 8/25
Portmanteau. Our new favorite word sounds like one of those quaint little island towns that dot the outer rim of the Puget Sound. Or a bluegrass band formed by a trio of ironic English lit majors. Unfortunately, the true definition of ‘portmanteau’ is less charming than we’d prefer. It is, in a nutshell, used to […]
New Tracks – 11/1
Politics aside, the latest project from writer Dave Eggers has been fantastic for music lovers. 30 Days, 30 Songs – which features a new song or video release every day for the 30 days leading up to Election Day – has inspired new creative projects from bands like Death Cab for Cutie and Cold War […]
New Tracks – 6/21
If you like to hear the same old music over and over again, then you probably won’t dig the Trail. Not only do we like to keep things fresh around here, we’re also keen on spinning tracks we guarantee you’ve never heard before – and often from artists who either haven’t made it big yet […]
