Every year, thousands of independent artists take to crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo to skip the traditional label system and secure funding for a new album or tour from their fans. The trend has become so popular that even […]
Singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey’s career was humming along nicely last year – recording, writing, European tours, annual week-long coffeehouse productions. Long stretches of concentrated writing, creative options opening everywhere, and even extended backroads bicycle jaunts with performances on front porches and wayside gas […]
Ask musicians to honestly talk about their work, and they’ll likely admit that talent only takes you so far. Liz Longley can attest to that. After more than 11 years of carrying around ambitions heavier than an overstuffed piece […]
My familiarity with Paula Cole’s music extended only to her mega-hits ‘Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?’ and the theme from the television show, Dawson’s Creek, but knew that I could not miss the opportunity to see her perform in […]
Although he’s most known for, basically, a pop hit, Shawn Mullins is one of those singer-songwriters who spins old-school yarns with his words, telling tales of hard-lived lives and hard-fought battles. Some of his characters are real, some aren’t… but […]
