Scott Faingold

"We're planning to do a children's show in a couple of days, and I was asked which song I would like to play for this kids' show. I started going through the songs on the record, and with every song it's like, 'Oh, shit, here's the love-story phobia song, this...

The good folks at the Anti label sure know how to pick 'em. But while labelmate and fellow flame-haired vixen Neko Case gets all the attention from horndog rock writers the world over ("She can sing and I'd do 'er!"), the enigmatic, sometimes disturbingly intense Jolie Holland threatens to slip...

Listening to every single thing that comes across my desk is by and large a painful if not soul-killing experience, but it does occasionally land a few diamonds in my lap that wouldn't get there any other way. Most of these CDs are by artists you've likely never heard of...

Catherine Ann Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean have been at this Freakwater thing since about 1988, which is pretty impressive when you stop to realize that Gram Parsons died after recording a total of two LPs with Emmylou Harris; George Jones and Tammy Wynette were together for only about six...