A Wasteland Companion (Merge Records). Review by Will Bernstein.

Jen Cray discovers that An Evening with Cake, while frought with some forgivable frontman soapboxing, is an evening well spent.

Elianne Halbersberg has a good ol’ talk with with Charlie Daniels, professional musician and genuine nice person.

Tomorrow Is Alright (Fat Possum). Review by Jen Cray.

Courtney Love has resurrected Hole, in a way, and set out on a tour that has quickly become the must-see beautiful disaster of the summer. Jen Cray caught the uneven Orlando show.

Tim Footman’s biography describes the sexual, intellectual, depressing romantic that is Leonard Cohen, leaving Jessica Whittington no choice but to put a little whipped cream on it and eat every word with a spoon.

There’s only one man whose swagger can quiet a crowd of 600,000 people on the cusp of rioting. His name is Leonard Cohen , and once again the poet/musician surfaces from images of the past.

The world lost an astonishingly gifted artist when singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt passed away December 25, 2009.

Homemade Ship (K Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Matthew Moyer finds himself in the same concert hall as Leonard Cohen , holy clown, dour prophet, borscht belt crooner, and true legend – in Tampa, Florida, no less.

Live in London (Sony). Review by Jessica Whittington.

Filling up The Plaza Theatre with their heartbreaking sounds, Cowboy Junkies treat Orlando – and Jen Cray – to an evening of tear-jerking beauty.

Caught in the Trees (Secretly Canadian). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.

Merri Cyr tries to catch lightning in a camera lens in this re-issue of her 2002 scrapbook of intimate reflections on legendary musician Jeff Buckley. S D Green wonders if Buckley was ever really here at all.

12 Crass Songs (Rough Trade). Review by Michael Crown.

Matthew Ryan Vs. The Silver State (00:02:59). Review by Andrew Ellis.

Beauty?… (Hollow Hills Sound Recordings). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Save the Scene (Kindercore). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Little Amber Bottles (Original Signal). Review by Jen Cray.

Sometimes You Hear Through Someone Else (Azra). Review by Aaron Shaul.