Aquatic Flowers, the fifth album from Nashville-based Tristen Gaspadarek, aka Tristen, spotlights the singer-songwriter’s proficient lyricism, mellifluous voice, and gift for crafting pop-inflected melodies, a further honing of the palette used on previous releases, including 2017’s enchanting Sneaker Waves. The […]
Just when I was thinking what an amazing year 2017 was for female artists – the amount of great work is unsurpassed in musical history – Mr. Portnow comes out and says that women need to “step up.” I have […]
It isn’t uncommon for some of the bands from the Mountain Stage Radio Show to come over to the Post Mountain Stage Jam at the Empty Glass.
There’s something to please just about every ear in the new releases bin this week. Tristen offers up some pop perfection, Fat Possum has released a treasure trove of blues recordings, and Connor Kennedy brings a regional songwriter’s statement into a […]
In rounding up artists deserving of wider attention, I asked some of ND photographers to chime in on who they thought fit the bill regardless of how long they’ve been out there on the road and in the studio. So, in addition […]
Tristen has always been a difficult artist to categorize. Sometimes she sounds like country crooner and others a bonafide pop star, and her sound has continued to evolve and mature since her 2011 debut Charlatans at the Gate. Her crystalline […]
