#Cass McCombs

NEWS ROUNDUPNew Singles, Bob Dylan, and Mitski

There was a ton of great new music released this week. Here’s four of the best singles we heard.

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWCass McCombs @ Bowery Ballroom

Of the many adjectives one could foist upon musicians, “pure” does not top the heap. And yet no word could ring more true when describing Cass McCombs’ set at the Bowery Ballroom last Thursday. And when I say “pure,” I do not mean chaste or innocent, but pure in form. Unadulterated. Music for...

Madison Bloom

LIVE REVIEWCass McCombs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

New York City and nomadic guitar-man and songwriter Cass McCombs may seem mutually exclusive, but in fact, he used to live here, sometime between stints in Concord, California (his hometown), Baltimore and San Francisco. Throughout a seven-album-long career, McCombs has never settled. To listen to...

Carena Liptak

VIDEO REVIEWCass McCombs "Unearthed"

The contents of Cass McCombs' long and winding double album Big Wheel and Others fall into one of two categories. About half are capital-s Songs, with verses and choruses, beginnings, middles, and ends. The rest of the collection expands, with mesmerizing slowness, to fill less rigidly constructed...

Carena Liptak

AudioFemme's Best of 2013

From elaborate roll-outs to surprise releases, 2013 was a banner year for comebacks, break-outs, break-ups, and overnight sensations. The fact that the most oblique content could cause rampant controversy to reverberate through the blogosphere turned every song into a story and made every story...

Lindsey Rhoades

VIDEO OF THE WEEKCass McCombs "Big Wheel

Back in October, enigmatic folk artist Cass McCombs released his seventh full-length, Big Wheel and Others, a double album that led us through hypnotic rhythm cycles and tangential, but beautiful, guitar passages, intimate if shadowed vocal lines, and lyrics that fit together like a Rubik's...

Carena Liptak

Cass McCombs Big Wheel and Others hi-res cover HTM

ALBUM REVIEWCass McCombs "Big Wheel and Others"

In his decade-long career, Cass McCombs has produced seven full-length albums, all deeply interior and intricately crafted, and all known—to varying extents—as meandering, inaccessible folk music that mirrors the artist's own nomadic lifestyle. Californian by birth, McCombs retains a distinctly...

Carena Liptak