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 ...

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." ...

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

If you told me back in 1998 that the Handsome Family was going to put out a record twice as good as In the Trees, I would’ve thought you were a bigger hyperbolist than me. But their new album, Last ...