A number of years back I fell hard and deep into the world of acoustic instrumental music. It has always been there and played a more peripheral role in my [ … ]
Category: Track Reviews
Peep This: Bella White “Just Like Leaving” (ftr. Patrick M’Gonigle & Patrick Metzger)
Bella White continues to wow with her signature twang, beautiful and hauntingly penned songs and absolute control of her own and each song’s voice and narrative. She comes back with [ … ]
Song Premiere: “Talking to Your Ghost,” The Reconstructed
The Reconstructed just released its latest album, Great North Wind, and it’s full of the paradoxes and tensions that make people sit down and write songs to try to make [ … ]
First Listen: Emily Mure “Gone For Good” (The Shins)
There are a lot of artists out there who suffer from the malady “cover-a-song-but-its-not-as-good-as-the-original-and-you-didn’t-make-it-your-own”-itis. Emily Mure is not one of those artists. Just today Mure dropped a new single celebrating [ … ]
Simply Put, This Shit Rocks – The Low Cards “Suffer”
Know that feeling the second a song kicks in and your immediately reaction is “holy shit, this is going to take me for a ride”. The latest single “Suffer”, from [ … ]
Fresh Track: Say Darling “One Man Band”
What do you get when two juggernauts join forces, combining talent and styles? One answer could simply be: Say Darling. Another could be a brutal force of badass bluesy goodness [ … ]
Fresh Track: Joan Shelley “Where I’ll Find You”
Joan Shelley‘s music came to me via another musician friend’s songs. Last year our pal Sam Moss was on tour with Shelley leading up to a Newport Folk Festival performance [ … ]
Fresh Track: The Silks “Let It Ride”
Some music just makes you feel good. A bluesy rock n’ roll riff that straight punches you in the face and makes you beg for more. That’s what Providence’s The [ … ]
First Listen: Liz Frame and the Kickers “Little Brown House”
Liz Frame has a tremble to her voice. A break that splits cracks in her chest and gives you a glimpse into her heart. Breaks, that may be taken as [ … ]
Why Aren’t You Listening to This?: Joshua Black Wilkins Releases 2 New Tracks
There is a sense of grit and sexiness in the art of Joshua Black Wilkins that extends from his music into his photography. When we were discussing friends work lately [ … ]