independent thoughts on indie rock, alternative, and indie pop music
It’s 1992. I'm too young for a license, but my cousin volunteers to teach me to drive his blue Chevy Cavalier on a dusty dirt road in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. From the tape deck, this gut-punching Southern rock n’ roll music surges into the car, and I am mystified. “What is this??” I think... Continue Reading →
“Co-writing is like writing a page in your diary and then immediately showing it to someone you don’t know,” laughs the angelic-voiced BANNERS, who is gearing up to release a new EP via Island Records this month. The Toronto-based native Liverpudlian has been traveling to Nashville to take part in the local creative and collaborative... Continue Reading →
”I like to think that I’m a thinker. I think a lot about being a thinker,” laughs Clayton Davis, guitarist and vocalist for Nashville-by-way-of-Chattanooga, Tennessee band Behold The Brave; the group recently released a nine-song self-titled stunner which deftly blends their Southern rock roots with subtle psychedelia. “Before this album, we were in the indie... Continue Reading →
Brooklyn-based indie rock outfit Best Behavior is gearing up to release a new EP, Things That Happened, this fall—an appropriate title given the two-year stretch since their last album, and the events that caused the musical pause. The band had already recorded the EP when a chance encounter changed their trajectory. “We opened up for... Continue Reading →
From its longstanding tenure as a musical tastemaker city to its outstanding professional sports reputation, it’s no secret that Cleveland rocks. “The straight-up rock n’ roll culture goes hand-in-hand with the overall culture in Cleveland,” says Welshly Arms frontman Sam Getz. “We love our sports teams here. We all go through these peaks and valleys... Continue Reading →
“You can put one of those records on and it casts a magic spell—you can be somewhere else in some other story. It was an escape,” says Jason Wilber, who discovered Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins and Tom T. Hall in his parents’ record collection as a child. From childhood piano lessons and commandeering his... Continue Reading →
August 21, 2017 will be a momentous day; Nashville will be partially in the path of totality for the solar eclipse—an event which hasn’t affected the area in 500 years, and one which will bring an estimated extra 1.4 million people to the Music City. August 21st is also the day that Nashville-based singer/songwriter Corey... Continue Reading →
Spencer Livingston and Alex Moore, otherwise known as Livingmore (see what they did there?), are preparing to release Ok To Land, their debut album set to arrive later this year. The pair recorded the album with producer and friend Brian Rosemeyer at Kingsize Soundlabs in Eagle Rock, California. “We tracked everything on Saturdays and Sundays... Continue Reading →
“My vocabulary got pretty big, pretty fast. My songs are organically a little wordy, though, I don’t say to myself, ‘I’m a wordy person, so I’m going to use all the words I know,’” explains dry-witted Vermont-based singer/songwriter Henry Jamison, who grew up with an English professor and a composer, otherwise respectively known as “mom... Continue Reading →
A band of brothers that morphed into an actual band, folk rock outfit Ha Ha Tonka began many moons ago at the former Southwest Missouri State University, now known as Missouri State University, picked up a rowdy roster of members along the way--since then, they have toured the world, graced major festival stages, and set... Continue Reading →
