Near Truths and Hotel Rooms (Live) (Oh Boy Records). Review by Joe Frietze.

…the Size of Planets (Chairkickers’ Music). Review by Aaron Shaul.

The Sky Above and The Mud Below (Carrot Top Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Thirty years and still fighting the good fight. Rob Walsh talks to Sweet Honey in the Rock and finds that the message still lives.

Ordinary Time (Megaforce). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Moses Guest (Aufheben). Review by Vinnie Apicella.

The Big Book of Sad Songs, Vol. 1 (Bongobeat). Review by Ben Varkentine.

Little Green Leaves (K). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Wonderland: A Winter Solstice Celebration (Signature Sounds). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Voices in the Fog (K). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

The Rodeo Eroded (Ropeadope). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Fall Love (Bus Stop Label). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Something / Everything! (K). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

America’s foremost ethnomusicologist and folklorist, Alan Lomax, passed away July 19. David Whited offers a small tribute to the man’s enormous legacy.

Pathetic Me (TMT). Review by Kiran Aditham.

Australian folk-pop trio The Waifs are working hard to get their charming and honest music heard in the rest of the world. Stein Haukland catches up with singer / guitarist Donna Simpson at the start of the band’s US tour.

Did someone put a fatwah on Cat Stevens’ career? Hal Horowitz examines the nadir of the folkie-turned-Muslim’s pop music career, taking an in-depth look at Stevens’ recently-reissued last three albums, Numbers, IZITSO, and Down To Earth.

The Indigo Girls, with Spearhead (Chastain Park, Atlanta, GA, June 2, 2000). Concert review by Jeff Montgomery; photos by Shannah Cahoe Montgomery.