Don’t let the name fool you–or do. Despite the whimsy their moniker might imply, Brooklyn’s Family Band create haunting, elegant pop music, a kind of country gothic that doesn’t so much pick up the literary tradition of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor as it lives in their aftermath. There’s no pickin’ and a’ grinnin’ here, [...]

Sometime last Fall, when the leaves were barely hanging on to the branches of the trees back East, my old friend Jeff Thrope (who now helms the excellent blog Cold Splinters out of Brooklyn) hipped me to Family Band’s Miller Path LP using brevity: he simply stated I needed this music in my life. Indeed.  [...]