There is something that I truly love about most of my close friends being musicians. Not only do I constantly get to hear my friends play, I get tuned into [ … ]

If there is one thing I have learned being a part of a music community, rather than a ‘scene’ or a ‘posse’ or ‘trying to climb the mountain’ rather than [ … ]

There are those who try and fake vigor and enthusiasm. The world is full of “douche face” guitar solos, crappy rhyming schemes in songs, and jackasses dressed in late 19th [ … ]

Writing, crafting, and performing great songs is one thing that a lot of folks struggle with. Doing that all while making OTHER people’s songs sound amazing is an entirely different [ … ]

  A few months back a mutual friend pointed me to James Maple’s last release “American Dreams” and I have been listening to it constantly ever since. A great collection [ … ]

Every so often an artist comes along that you want to scream from the rooftops for everyone to listen to them. Its a rare occurrence and this is only the [ … ]

 Man Alive! is what I would probably categorize somewhere in the “alt-folk meets haunting waltz meets country for people who don’t like country” music genre. Confused yet? Good! All you [ … ]

I (again) and going to embark on a new adventure in blogging and try to do a short feature, each and every Friday on an artist I think you NEED [ … ]

I recently came to a realization while at the Newport Folk Festival…I am pretty sure that Dan Blakeslee knows EVERYONE and subsequently, everyone loves Dan. A charming and likeable character [ … ]

In my Red Line Scene feature with Tom Bianchi I mentioned the behind every great man there is a great woman (dealing with his crap). Well in Tom’s case (and [ … ]