Stereogum — A great record takes you outside of yourself and reorganizes your world until it feels like you’re in a different environment, a different season, a different age. It’s rare to come across an album that manages to both get inside of you and force... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Joan Shelley will follow 2014's Electric Ursa with her third album, Over and Even, this Friday (9/4) via No Quarter (pre-order). She recorded it with frequent collaborator Nathan Salsburg, and it also features contributions from Glen... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Steve Gunn While details on Steve Gunn's first record for Matador are still forthcoming, he has announced a fall tour with his former Paradise of Bachelors labelmates James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg. That tour includes a two-night... more info

Stereogum — James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg are strange bedfellows in many ways. They’re two men who come from very different places but share an affinity for acoustic traditions and the lost art of guitar duets. Elkington is an Englishman camped out in Ch... more info

Stereogum — Ambsace is a word the lowest throw of the dice, the unluckiest, smallest outcome in a gamble. In a way, though, this word evokes its own singularity, and a sort of luck in the very unlikeliness of the occurrence. If anything, that word encapsulates t... more info

Stereogum — Guitar duets seem like a rare gem of the past, and finding a new one is a gentle reminder of the stripped-down beauty the acoustic format conveys. English collaborating guitarist James Elkington (who has worked with Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson, and... more info