Rupert Angeleyes on ‘Pillow Talk’, Costumes, and the Kindness of Music Fans (INTERVIEW)
Minneapolis-based Psych and Dream Pop artist Rupert Angeleyes released his third album Pillow Talk, on April 20th and played a special release show with his live band. The songs on the new album have a strongly atmospheric quality and the layering of instrumentation was all devised by Rupert. Thematically, the songs loosely follow ideas of […]
Molly Miller of Jason Mraz Band on Staying In Motion on New Trio LP ‘The Ballad of Hotspur’ (INTERVIEW)
The Molly Miller Trio, consisting of Molly Miller, Jennifer Condos, and Jay Bellerose, are releasing their new Western-influenced instrumental album The Ballad of Hotspur on May 3rd. It builds on their individual musical influences around a Jazz sensibility and on their creative interaction as a live performing group in the LA area and beyond. Recording […]
Austin Troubadour JM Stevens Transforms His Songwriting and Vocal Approach For New LP ‘Nowhere To Land’ (INTERVIEW)
Austin-based singer/songwriter and Producer JM Stevens recently released his second solo album, Nowhere To Land, which sees a big development in vocal nuances and a certain sparse approach to sound in comparison to his previous work. As the proprietor of East Austin Recording (EAR), Stevens is used to working with many genres and approaches and […]
Multi-Faceted Singer-Songwriter Liz Brasher’s ‘Baby Damn’ Captures a Life In Motion (INTERVIEW)
Liz Brasher is a Latina singer/songwriter influenced by Rock, Soul, Funk, and Gospel music whose second album, Baby Damn, is arriving on April 26th. It marks her first release from the label Blue Élan Records and a big departure for Brasher who went from Memphis to LA to record at Sunset Sound with Producer Joe […]
New Orleans Musician Lynn Drury Finds Dockside Inspiration For Lively New LP ‘High Tide’ (ALBUM PREMIERE/INTERVIEW)
New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Lynn Drury will be releasing her album, High Tide, in various formats on April 5th, 2024, via Nolamericana Music. It was Produced by Papa Mali (Ruthie Foster), and recorded mostly live over three days last year at Dockside Studio in Maurice, Louisiana by Justin Tocket. Drury prefers to record in a studio […]
The Children Talk In-Person Writing, Performance Spaces, and ‘A Sudden Craving’ (INTERVIEW)
The Children is an experimental project that combines the creative visions of members of Swans, Angels of Light, and Cop Shoot Cop, among others. They will be releasing their album A Sudden Craving via Erototox Decodings on 12” LP vinyl and digital download on March 8th, 2024. Born from the New York-based DIY scene, and […]
LA Post-pop Duo Songs for Sabotage Bring Depth and Vibe To New Album ‘Clean Trauma’ (INTERVIEW)
LA-based duo Songs for Sabotage bring with them many years of experience in the New York music scene and in multiple bands and genres. They are releasing their sophomore LP, Clean Trauma, on March 13th, 2024. It represents a significant sound shift in comparison to their previous album, Night of Joy, moving into electronic and […]
Mackenzie Shivers Talks Wild Ideas and Dramatic Eras Behind ‘primrose was in season’ (INTERVIEW)
Mackenzie Shivers recently released her fourth full-length album, primrose was in season, working again with frequent collaborator Kevin Salem (Rachel Yamagata, Emmylou Harris) as Producer, and the collection shows Shivers’ continual push into new and interesting blends of acoustic and electronic elements. The album is one of dynamic contrasts, both in terms of sounds and […]
Des Rocs on Aspirational Rock ‘n Roll and New LP ‘Dream Machine’ (INTERVIEW)
New York-based Rock artist Des Rocs has been touring pretty steadily over 2023 and into 2024, and has recently announced a US Spring headline tour starting in April, with special guest Jigsaw Youth. These shows build on his autumn 2023 release of new album Dream Machine via Sumerian Records, a high-energy collection that reflects on […]
Rising Songstress Zada Seeks To Balance The Internal and The External on Debut Album ‘Water in the Desert’ (INTERVIEW)
British Columbia-based singer/songwriter Zada was born in Ethiopia and spent many of her formative years in the mountains of Canada where she became a proficient skier and horseback rider. She calls herself a “mountain girl” for that reason and brings a lot of her love for the natural world into her work, particularly through her […]
Chestnut Grove’s Dee Gerhart and James Daniels on Building a Big Ethereal Sound for ‘Can’t Stand The Music’ (INTERVIEW)
Chestnut Grove is a Philadelphia-based multi-genre Rock band who have been playing together for 12 years, and they recently released their album Can’t Stand The Music. The release followed a ‘Ta-Ta For Now’ tour where the band pulled out all the stops for some mega shows, including big hometown celebrations to finish things off. As […]
Jon Cattivera of Emo Groundbreakers Time Spent Driving Talks Life Lessons and ‘Estrangers’ (INTERVIEW)
Time Spent Driving are a California-based band who were Emo groundbreakers in the late 90s/early 2000s drawing their members from Melodic Punk and Hardcore bands and after a break-up, reformed in 2012. In late 2023, they released new album Estrangers, their first via Negative Progression Records. The collection is coming to vinyl soon and reflects […]
Roots Rock Duo The FBR Chases Their ‘Ghost’ Into New Territory For Their Debut Album (INTERVIEW)
Franklin-Tennessee-based band The FBR (named after Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat”) released their debut album, Ghost, on January 19th. It builds on many years of songwriting separately and together, but also reflects a big leap forward when Malarie McConaha (lead vocals, electric guitar) and Tim Hunter (acoustic guitar, harmonica) realized that bringing their live band […]
Ramona Jan & Nic North Reflect on Their Life and Times as Synth-punk Band Comateens (INTERVIEW)
New York-based No Wave band The Comateens’ “Danger Zone” and “Elizabeth’s Lover” have recently been reissued by Left for Dead, a label with a long connection to both the band and their original guitarist Ramona Jan. The tracks arrived on CD (with gatefold sleeve), 12” LP vinyl, and digitally via Bandcamp. The Comateens were founded in […]
Bastards of Soul Celebrate Late Singer Chadwick Murray’s Legacy with ‘Give It Right Back’ (INTERVIEW)
Dallas-based band Bastards of Soul recently released their final collection of songs recorded with their late vocalist Chadwick Murray titled Give It Right Back via the newly founded Skylark Soul Co. It was preceded by the album Corners (2022) which was also recorded before Murray’s untimely death from a rare and sudden pulmonary illness in […]
Longtime Studio Musician J. Wilms Talks Thought-provoking Solo LP ‘The Fighter’ (ALBUM PREMIERE/INTERVIEW)
J. Wilms will be releasing his fourth solo album, titled The Fighter, on December 8th, and it marks something of a departure for him. As someone who is an accomplished guitarist and has worked for many years as a studio musician as well as creating and releasing previous solo albums that were primarily instrumental, Wilms […]
Kurt Baker Celebrates Living Traditions With ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Club’ And SiriusXM Radio Show ‘The Buzz Electric’ (INTERVIEW)
Kurt Baker recently released his new record with his band, Rock ‘N’ Roll Club, via Stevie Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records, and it’s a collection that focuses on the eclectic aspects of Rock and the ways in which Rock music brings people together. Around the same time, the SiriusXM Radio channel Little Steven’s Underground Garage […]
Ira Wolf Unearths a Bigger Americana-folk Sound For New LP ‘Rock Bottom’ (INTERVIEW)
Singer/songwriter Ira Wolf released her fourth album Rock Bottom, her first in several years, via Nettwerk in October. Through the gradual roll out of singles from the album, and along with her openness with her audience on social media, Wolf made it clear that the album documents a period of intense emotion and introspection that […]
Paul Chastain Talks Synthesizers, Songwriting, and The Small Square’s ‘Ours & Others’ (INTERVIEW)
The Small Square, a duo made up of Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush, Matthew Sweet) and John Richardson (Tommy Keene, Gin Blossoms, Badfinger) remastered and rereleased their first self-titled album with expanded tracks over the summer and on Halloween, launched their second full album, Ours & Others. Both were recorded in large part at John Richardson’s […]
Divine Horsemen’s Julie Christensen On Doubling Down For ‘Bitter End of a Sweet Night’ (INTERVIEW)
Divine Horsemen have recently released Bitter End of a Sweet Night via In The Red Records, a follow-up to 2021’s Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix that marked their return to releasing music after 33 years. In many ways, it was like no time had passed at all, with new Divine Horsemen songs proving […]