independent thoughts on alternative music
Day two of Pilgrimage was as steamy as day one, but we made sure to get there early to see 18-year-old blues guitar phenom, Kingfish, who hails from the delta of Mississippi and was raised listening to and playing the blues. The kid plays like a seasoned veteran and sings like someone who has lived … Read more Eo8 ON LOCATION: PILGRIMAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL, DAY 2
It’s Saturday of Pilgrimage Music Festival, and as we arrived to the festival grounds that morning, all I could think about was how hot it was for the end of September in Franklin, Tennessee. After this initial thought, like everyone attending the festival, I decided to embrace the discomfort and take in every moment. This … Read more Eo8 ON LOCATION: PILGRIMAGE FESTIVAL, DAY 1
If I were a rock star, I’d want to be just like sElf’s Matt Mahaffey. Matt Mahaffey is somewhat of a legend around these parts: the musical wunderkind of middle Tennessee by way of east Tennessee, record producer, recording engineer, multi-instrumentalist, co-founder of the prolific 90’s independent record label Spongebath Records in downtown Murfreesboro, and founder … Read more AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MATT MAHAFFEY of sElf
As I sat at my favorite coffee shop drafting this post, looking out the window at this gray, rainy, cold, Tennessee winter day, I decided to create a playlist to to lift us all from these unwelcome winter doldrums (click here to listen). There’s something amazing about music’s ability to lift our spirits, you know? … Read more THE WINTER NOT-SO-DOLDRUMS PLAYLIST