Meeting of Important People has gone through a number of permutations and various band names in the past several years. But Josh Verbanets’ crazy catchy Kinks-esque songs and wild stage demeanor keep on ticking. Quit Music is the newest EP […]
Man oh man. I first saw Samantha Crain a few years back at Howlers. She and her band were playing a show with Pittsburgh indie act, Lohio. And duuuuuuuuuude. She was kind of like the Microphones channeling Loretta Lynn. Or […]
So this blog is meant to be thoughts about music as well as updates about my band, Boca Chica. Here’s what we have been up to lately, in handy numbered form. Table of Contents: 1. We just launched a Kickstarter […]
When I was 22 years old I discovered Gillian Welch. I’d grown up on 70’s folk (though I never saw a day of the 70’s myself) and loved the southern and Appalachian-influenced folk rock of bands like Brewer & […]
Listening to Small Cities’ debut full-length, Jackson Purchase, the impression I get is one of a completely American band (won’t my face be red if I find out their drummer is from Toronto or something). It’s the sort of music […]
I was driving down the highway the other day and the Allman Brothers came on the radio. Did you ever really listen to the lyrics to that song (man)? A line that I never really fully digested jumped out at […]
So Friday night marked the release of Horse or Cycle’s new album Flood Season. I’m not sure why they called it Flood Season, but I like the title because it has some nice vowel sounds in it and reminds of […]
About four years ago, my boyfriend Nick decided to take off of a bike tour of the US. He kept trying to convince me to go along, but I took the “No way, Dude” stance on biking distances of over […]
Greetings dudes and dudettes. So here it goes, the first of what promises to be a lasting contribution to the musical lexicon– The Girl from Boca Chica blogging extravaganza. The girl, being myself, one Hallie Pritts– bandleader and songwriter of […]
