2020's lockdown inspired the first song on Della Mae's new album, a cathartic, vibrantly bluegrass project called Family Reunion. Celia Woodsmith and Kimber Ludiker talk about the band's origins, its overseas adventures and the feeling of making music again in the same room.

Raised on mountain music in Galax, VA, Dori Freeman has spent four albums exploring an ever more personal and catchy take on Appalachian country music. Her newest, Ten Thousand Roses, was produced by her husband, a drummer, as its beat-forward feel shows.

It’s an arresting, almost accusatory title, spilling in cartoonish letters down the right margin of Tim Easton’s tenth studio album. You Don’t Really Know Me. I don’t? I’ve been listening to Easton’s songs for twenty years, appreciating the variety of his musical moods, hearing his lyrics, learning his unusual story. I mean, Tim, you’re the storyteller. What haven’t you been telling us?

The stuff movies are made of... Girl leaves med school in NYC to pursue music in Nashville, meets manager working in a medical office. It's Allie Dunn's true story!

Omnivore Recordings has released Mighty Fine, An Austin City Limits Tribute to Walter Hyatt, featuring 17 performances by luminaries including Lyle Lovett, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Marcia Ball, Junior Brown and the surviving members of Uncle Walt’s Band, Champ Hood and David Ball. (Hood has since died from cancer.) Earlier this year, the same label issued Uncle Walt’s Band Recorded Live at Waterloo Ice House, an enthralling time capsule of the band’s live dynamic captured over several nights in 1982.

For the people of LaPlace, La. the destruction of Hurricane Ida was on another level. And that has some residents considering moving away before the next one.

The Biden Administration believes it will still be transformative, but it is far less than what he originally proposed.

Beach said that he was sexually assaulted by a video coach for the hockey team in 2010 and that the team did nothing about it for weeks. Beach came forward publicly for the first time Wednesday.