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The Bootstrap Boys -- Some Boots

The Bootstrap Boys -- Some Boots

The Bootstrap Boys have never sounded better -- or bleaker -- on their recent album Some Boots. The tension between devil-may-care-defiance and existential angst may just be the molten core that keeps country music rotating.

Fancy Hagood -- BABY JAKE

Fancy Hagood -- BABY JAKE

Fancy Hagood gives us a pleasant, bluegrass-infused surprise with his three-song EP BABY JAKE. Come for the Spice Girls cover, stay for Hagood's breathtaking voice.

CHAPS - In All Directions

CHAPS - In All Directions

In this "bedeviling" collection of ten songs, CHAPS delivers a series of body-altering character studies on his album In All Directions, writes Bee Delores.

Rae Spoon - Assigned Country Singer at Birth

Rae Spoon - Assigned Country Singer at Birth

Queer country legend Rae Spoon returns to their genre assigned at birth -- one full of cunning, needle-point songwriting, writes Bee Delores.

Jessye DeSilva -- Glitter Up the Dark

Jessye DeSilva -- Glitter Up the Dark

Jessye DeSilva's new album Glitter Up the Dark transmutes queer joy into an immortal dance floor, writes Kate Fishman.

Anjimile -- You're Free to Go

Anjimile -- You're Free to Go

Quietly revolutionary and subtle, Anjimile's latest album You're Free To Go works its way under your skin and into your awareness, writes Richard Marcus.

Paula Boggs Band -- Sumatra

Paula Boggs Band -- Sumatra

Sumatra is Paula Boggs Band's rousing, poignant, and hopeful contribution to the resistance, writes Richard Marcus.