Just a brief public service announcement as I push through PMS-related insomnia and migraines (menoause is gonna be great!) If you missed it this summer, R. Ring — the garage rock lovechild of Kelley Deal (of Breeder fame) and Mike…
Is it gauche to plug your own music on your own music blog? If it’s wrong then I won’t mention this again except for the “About Me” page. While I don’t think any of these songs particularly sound like my…
If you’ve been paying attention to this blog for a while, you’ve already heard Becky Shaw’s work with alterna-grass band Roxie Watson, and in Sonia Tetlow‘s work over the years. Though Shaw has been an Atlanta indie rock staple for…
I wrote about Joplin Rice’s Low Hum a few months ago, but Rice edged in another 2015 release at almost the last second. Rice has melancholy down to a fine art. Where Low Hum saw Rice alone in his bedroom…
Apologies for my hiatus — I needed to turn into an elf for Santa for a couple of weeks. That and my physical exhaustion after teaching for most of a semester (my annual facial tick is gradually dying) made writing…
Since I’ve mentioned it a few times in previous posts, I’d like the record to show that nobody has stepped forward to claim that they, too, have written a country song about U-Hauling. Ergo, mine is the first, only, and…
In my quest to prove that I had indeed written the world’s first country song about U-Hauling, my spirit animal @NashvilleRage (who hates the town as much as I do, but they live there and I was only there for…
I wanted to take this brief opportunity to unearth some minutiae of queer and indie rock history. A few months ago, I proudly declared on Facebook that I had written the world’s first country song about U-Hauling. One of my…