Interviews

Emma Swift’s new album, “The Resurrection Game,” unfolds like a series of letters written from the far edge of an emotional winter. It is a record of desolate beauty and delicately held hope, the sound of someone who has passed through collapse and found something luminous in what remained. Swift does not sing to escape […]

Danheim is the Nordic Folk and Viking-inspired project of Danish singer/songwriter and Producer Reidar Schæfer Olsen, who has been operating in Electronic and Ambient music for over ten years. Olsen draws on historical and mythological sources for inspiration, and through using organic elements in his music, he builds up an atmosphere of authenticity that spans […]

Kansas City Indie Rock duo Katy Guillen & The Drive, led by Katy Guillen (vocals/guitar) and Stephanie Williams (drums) has recently released their sophomore album, Make That Sound. From towering Rock heights, to quieter, more confessional moments, the album really stretches the duo’s sound and shows off their expansive musical chops. There seems to be an intuitive link between genre elements that take […]

On November 08, in Los Angeles, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will hold their induction ceremony and finally the name of Bad Company will appear on the list of inductees. It’s been a long time coming for this rock band that formed from the bluesy ashes of Free. But here they will stand, […]

For Will Anderson, the act of making music has always been about connection. As the lead vocalist and songwriter for the Platinum-certified pop band Parachute, he spent over a decade crafting songs that soared through radio waves and across festival stages. But nothing in his long career could prepare him for the private, aching creation […]

It’s taken nearly eight years, but The Barr Brothers have finally returned with their latest studio recording, Let It Hiss. Despite the gap, this time has hardly been idle for Brad and Andrew Barr as they have been playing with their other long-running and prolific band The Slip, lending their instrumental talents to a range […]

John Moreland doesn’t chase validation. He just writes songs — slowly, deliberately, and only when the words demand to be written. “I just do my thing,” he said, his voice unhurried. “And hope for the best, honestly.” For Moreland, the act of making music has never been about fitting in. “I don’t really know how […]

In the burgeoning late 1970s punk scene in New York, there were dozens of bands, maybe even a hundred, as the decade moved towards its close. Some music magazines helped spread the word, though not always those most allied with mainstream music, and the British flavor of punk had not yet really arrived or been […]

For Sierra Hull, an innocuous 2023 phone call with the creative geniuses at Gibson ultimately led to the culmination of a dream decades in the making.  Immediately upon receiving her first Gibson mandolin at the age of twelve, Hull became enamored with the craftsmanship and pristine sound quality that sets Gibson instruments apart. In 2009, […]

He may have burst on the scene in the late ‘80s via Living Colour and that awesome “Cult of Personality” riff, but guitarist Vernon Reid has gone on to participate in a variety of projects from a head-spinning number of genres from jazz to electronic. Reid is back with a new solo album, Hoodoo Telemetry, […]

John Calvin Abney calls it “spiritual archaeology.” Every record he makes, he says, is a kind of excavation—digging into memory, grief, and fleeting experience to see what can be unearthed in song. His newest recording, Transparent Towns, may be his deepest dig yet. “I can’t help but think that every time I make a record, […]

When Howe Gelb, M. Ward, and McKowski were in the same place at the same time at a wedding in Tucson, Arizona, none of them imagined that a spur-of-the-moment collaboration would blossom into something else: Geckøs. Each had long histories of collaboration—Gelb best known as the restless spirit behind Giant Sand, Ward for his work […]

Anna Tivel’s songs unfold like poems whispered across a room—delicate, precise, but carrying the weight of entire lives. She has long been one of folk music’s most poetic voices, a songwriter who makes space for silence, for breath, for the small gestures that reveal everything. With her new record, Animal Poem, Tivel pushes even deeper […]

Instrumental Rock ‘n Roll band, Los Straitjackets, released their new album, Somos Los Straitjackets, on September 19th, 2025, via Yep Roc Records. It marks their first all-original album since 2012, and a change in approach as they headed to Chicago to work with Alex Hall at Reliable Recordings (JD McPherson, The Cactus Blossoms) to track […]

Seattle-based band Sweet Water will be releasing their first full-length album in over ten years, Shine On, on September 18th via Golden City Records. It marks their seventh full-length studio album so far, and ninth release overall, and was recorded in Stone Gossard’s Litho Studio, as well as in home studios, and mixed by Phil […]

Eric Johnson is used to working slowly, turning scraps of melody into full-grown Fruit Bats albums over months or years. But Baby Man, his latest release, came in a rush. Ten days in February 2025: no revisions, no second-guessing, just insomnia, dogs, mockingbirds, and a restless guitar. “It’s like a snapshot of a week in […]

Street Eaters are an Oakland, California-based post-punk rock band who just released their new album, Opaque, via Dirt Cult Records. The record channels a lot of emotion and struggle, and has the climate and feeling that we’re all familiar with these days where police action and immigration raids seem to be the new normal. However, […]

Bass Drum of Death, the lo-fi garage rock project centered around singer/multi-instrumentalist John Barrett, has hit an interesting crossroads in their creative career. With five acclaimed albums, major song placements in massive video games, and a newfound, more collaborative recording process, Barrett’s solo brainchild has the cult-like following and critical love that any band could […]

Singer/songwriter, author, and songwriting teacher Dar Williams will be releasing her thirteenth album, Hummingbird Highway, on September 12th, via Righteous Babe Records. She feels that this album, particularly, speaks to her perspectives gained as a touring musician, and within it we encounter many voices and glimpses of human history from various standpoints in time. Something […]

Josh Ritter has never been in a hurry with songs. Over the last two decades, the Idaho-born songwriter has learned to let them arrive when they’re ready—like unannounced guests, or weather patterns rolling across a wide Western sky. In that space of waiting, he has filled his life with novels, paintings, fatherhood, and touring, each […]