The centuries-old New Year’s Eve standard “Auld Lang Syne” rarely fails to send me into a sentimental tailspin, and a new recording of the song by Virginia indie folk-rockers Palmyra — who released an impressive debut album this year — certainly does the trick. Each of the three band members shared statements about the cover […]

This holiday season, let it FLO, let it FLO, let it FLO. The British R&B girl group is back today with an assortment of new tracks. None of them are Christmas songs, but I couldn’t get the phrase “let it FLO” out of my head. And since we’ve no place to go, you might as […]

In 2001, Tori Amos released a fascinating conceptual covers album called Strange Little Girls. On that LP, she took on songs written and originally performed by men — songs that seemed extremely masculine in one way or another — and remade them in her own meditative way. The songs came form all over the map: […]