“It’s the good times I remember at the end of the day,” sings folk legend Sylvia Tyson on her upcoming album, At the End of the Day, a collection of new songs that looks backward across a life well lived […]
“It’s the good times I remember at the end of the day,” sings folk legend Sylvia Tyson on her upcoming album, At the End of the Day, a collection of new songs that looks backward across a life well lived […]
“To me, roller derby and its athletes perfectly embody the spirit of my song, in all their DIY toughness and subversion of gender roles and constructs. Derby is a cool juxtaposition — people roller skating, which requires balance and […]
“Hominy Valley” details the story of a Cherokee scout who was poisoned by the US Army moving through what is now Asheville, North Carolina, during the Revolutionary War. The scout is buried underneath an oak tree adjacent to the neighborhood […]
“Sometimes love doesn’t work out. And when that happens you can stay at your best friend’s house for two weeks while she follows you around with an 8 mm camera wearing your sad clown makeup and painting your sad clown […]
Written and recorded in The Arcadian Wild’s hometown of Nashville, Welcome marks the start of a captivating new chapter for the genre-bending trio, whose innovative use of vocal harmony and counterpoint has helped redefine the possibilities of modern string band music. […]
Rachael Sage’s ’60s-influenced “Flowers for Free” is poetic pop-rock at its most adventurous. Beatle-esque wah guitar, baroque trumpet flourishes, chamber strings, and Sage’s pulsing piano ground this psychedelic song about never giving up on this earthly life or giving […]
On What Matters Most, his first album since 2015, Ben Folds delivers a set of 10 songs both bold and timely. The cinematic work examines the tragic and the absurd in equal measures as it reckons with hope and despair, […]
Alison Brown and Steve Martin’s collaboration “Foggy Morning Breaking” from Brown’s new album, On Banjo, features an all-star cast of pickers including Sierra Hull on mandolin, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Punch Brother Chris Eldridge on guitar, and Todd Phillips on […]
“G. Burns in the Bottom (pt1)” is from producer/composer Dick Connette’s latest, Vol. 2 from his Too Sad for the Public project, titled Yet and Still. He calls this work song-stirring, taking American folk, breaking it down, and shaking […]
This song is about the changing dynamics in a parent-child relationship as each person ages. In the story, the 25-year-old is trying to get in touch with the parent who is too busy for them, and the child realizes […]
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