Death: It’s a natural thing. But, in this country, it often appears only as a footnote to life. When it actually crosses our path, we are unprepared, dismayed at its invasion of our days. Confronting ...

The Handsome Family got a boost last year when Phoebe Bridgers turned in a bleak cover of their already wrenching Christmas-adjacent song “So Much Wine.” It was a nice shoutout for the husband-wife ...

So last week, New Music Tuesday focused on a really terrific album that actually just hit streets today. Let’s backtrack a bit now and look a sublime offering that was released last week. The Handsome ...

Folk duo The Handsome Family, whose song “Far from Any Road” soundtracked the main theme for season one of True Detective, are back with a new album, Hollow. It’s their eleventh LP, the follow up to ...

The Handsome Family has steadily built a cult following over the years while plumbing the dark western gothic corners of Americana, crafting layered character portraits amidst shadowed instrumentals.

after we lost the compass, after the radio went dead, we shot and ate the horses, we marched through deadly swamps, inside a limestone cave, I found a human skull. Yes Mary, I found a human skull." ...

(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) The husband-and-wife duo known as the Handsome Family have been making odd Americana albums for the past 21 years. The songs are led by Brett Sparks’ deep baritone voice, ...

The Handsome Family’s greatest gift lies in its tremendous talent for painting vivid, sometimes terrifying pictures with every word— NPR The Handsome Family’s absorbing vision of decay and entropy is ...

Woe just isn't as, well, woeful as it once was. Perhaps that's why so many death-country outfits gaze wistfully into the past, when men were men and religion was just plain scary. Chicago's Handsome ...

June Carter and Johnny Cash, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G. (okay, maybe not the last pair)—all mighty musical marriages, both figuratively and literally, that claim a ...