How do we describe what darkness looks like when the very absence of light strips our photoreceptors of information? How do we give shape to the experience of depression when its very nature — simultaneously shapeless and shape-shifting — makes […]
How do we describe what darkness looks like when the very absence of light strips our photoreceptors of information? How do we give shape to the experience of depression when its very nature–simultaneously shapeless and shape-shifting–makes it hard to define, […]
“I’m out on the porch — it’s pushing 70 today and the dogwoods are in bloom.” Travis Young, the creative and organizational force behind Moonshiner’s Ball, is calling me from his home base in Lexington, Kentucky. I can hear a […]
“I’m out on the porch — it’s pushing 70 today and the dogwoods are in bloom.” Travis Young, the creative and organizational force behind Moonshiner’s Ball, is calling me from his home base in Lexington, Kentucky. I can hear a […]
“It’s just a passing phase… we’re all 1’s and 0’s in waves… we are temporary, but man, it’s so beautiful.” So goes folk-pop gem “A Little Time Off Ahead,” the lead track off Vandaveer‘s The Wild Mercury. On New Year’s […]
“The banjo is an Appalachian instrument,” Valerie June remarked to the sold-out crowd in Brooklyn, NY. “But its roots are in Africa, so I like to think of it in both capacities.” Her reference to the origin story of the […]
In the heat of summer, in this furnace of unrest, we’re all in need of solace. To paraphrase Maya Angelou, music is refuge. Here are the fifteen songs I’ve had on heavy rotation this season. Most are new releases from this […]
“We dipped our toes into the water to see if we would sink or swim.” This metaphor of boyhood wonderment provides a striking opening to Vandaveer’s The Wild Mercury, a collection of songs from bandmate to brother, father to child, […]
