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 ...

The Handsome Family have announced a fall North American tour supporting the release of their upcoming LP, Hollow. The folk duo will hit the road in October with dates throughout the Midwest, South, ...

Handsome Family, who you might know for their song “Far from Any Road” (the theme to True Detective‘s first [good] season) will be back with their 10th album in September. Details are scarce at this ...

I used to have a rule when buying CDs, that before I would hand over any of the few dollars I ever had in hand at any one time, I had to have heard and liked at least three songs on the album. This ...

An unnerving madness infuses the murder ballads of The Handsome Family, a husband-and-wife duo who have been playing a gothic style of Americana together since the early 1990s. Brett Sparks writes the ...

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 ...

Heard with fresh ears two decades later, the early work of country-folk duo The Handsome Family exemplifies Americana as it existed in its formative years. Songwriters Rennie and Brett Sparks came up ...

Though it's based in Chicago, the husband-wife outfit known as the Handsome Family has a thing about the South: Each of the pair's dark 'n' twangy discs pokes at the region's musical forms with a ...

The amiable married couple, Brett and Rennie Sparks, are the Handsome Family: a true American-gothic country & western duo, albeit with some very indie roots. Brett’s the nasally Burl Ives-y crooner ...