Sep 24th, 2008 · New Jersey-born singer-songwriter Matt White has had his breezy pop songs featured in popular TV shows and movies. He recently visited Mountain Stage to perform songs from his full-length debut album, last year's Best Days.
Sep 18th, 2008 · If The Shins played music after popping Prozac, they might come up with something similar to Spark Large, the full-length debut from the Swedish duo Marching Band. Musicians Erik Sunberg and Jacob Lind have created an album that is brimming with breezy pop songs, perfect for a rise-and-shine playlist or one final summer road trip.
Sep 2nd, 2008 · In a delightful new book, journalist Susan Squire traces the first 5,000 years of marital behavior and reveals just how much of a historical odd couple love and marriage are.
Aug 29th, 2008 · A pretty, plucky heroine, a mean massage-parlor proprietress, and a handsome-prince figure who's more perceptive than most — David Kaplan's modern fairy tale stays breezy, brisk and down to earth.
May 13th, 2008 · Unabashedly cheerful, Bulat's "In the Night" is a perfect slab of shimmering girl-group pop, but it's no mere throwback gimmick. A young singer-songwriter from Toronto, Bulat invests the track with graceful effervescence and an innate understanding of momentum.
May 6th, 2008 · The music of Noble Three is filled with longing. Hearts are broken, days are lonely, promises are broken. But the Nashville, Tenn. duo tempers their melancholy with an infectious dose of finger snaps and claps, bouncing rhythms and tinkling pianos. Their debut EP, Shipwrecked, is both breezy and haunted, with gently plucked guitars and incredibly rich harmonies.
Apr 29th, 2008 · Listening to the music of New York pop quartet Melomane can be a life affirming experience. The band's cheery tunes on their latest CD, Glacier sound like an easy-breezy stroll through the park on a cloudless day. But to the group's credit, they don't suffer from blind idealism — there are shadows in the songs where darker thoughts lurk — which turns what might otherwise be saccharine pop songs into more thoughtful meditations on love and loss.
Sep 14th, 2007 · Iron and Wine's "Lovesong of the Buzzard" gets a wonderfully warm-blooded arrangement, as organs and steel guitars contribute to a sound that's downright springy, even lilting. The arrangement may be a cool glass of lemonade, but Beam spikes it with something potent and satisfying along the way.