“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” That’s one of Hunter S. Thompson’s finest musings. When life gives you strange circumstances, the truly dedicated take those times and put their personal stamp on the moment. That pretty well […]
At first blush, singer-songwriter Logan Ledger sounds like he just wasn’t made for these times. His singing is a throwback to a bygone era, stirring up echoes of the lonesome voices of a Glen Campbell or Roy Orbison. Ledger’s eponymous […]
Music, definitely at its best and sometimes at its worst, brings people together. It’s an agent of good in the world, a way to bring together performer and listener, musicians with other musicians, and cultures with other cultures. It takes […]
A good love song never goes out of style. It’s like Sir Paul McCartney sang: “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs / I look around me and I see it isn’t so.” And, to […]
Have you seen the news lately? Things are looking pretty bleak out there, what with the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout. Concerts and other mass-attended events are being cancelled, folks are being encouraged to stay home and avoid public spaces […]
Managing a career is hard. Being a parent is hard, too. But trying to juggle both simultaneously is profoundly difficult. It’s tough for me, a normie with a relatively normal day job and life. And finding that balance isn’t any […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. Black Pumas was released in June. The Grammy nominations came out recently, and the “Best New […]
Grace is 25 years old. Jeff Buckley’s debut is gorgeous and heartbreaking, ambitious, daring and eclectic, and, as the sole studio album released during his short life, the only fully realized vision of the artistic brilliance he possessed. With the […]
Frank Turner’s always been a literary fellow. One of his earliest and best songs is “I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous,” and he’s sprinkled a few other T.S. Eliot references in his work over the years. In 2015, he […]
What constitutes “real” country music is a debate that’s gone on for a long time. It’s certainly raged on longer than Tyler Childers has been alive. The 28-year-old Childers is the next potential superstar in the roots-based country movement. This […]
