Heather Green’s songs might be dominated by distorted guitars and layered harmonies, but it’s Green’s carefully observant lyrics that distinguish her. “The Wild Ones,” a song that exudes confidence — not because of the subject matter, but because of Green…
Here’s to finally updating this blog! I think I’ll finally have enough breathing room for this again. The Feral Conservatives blew me away last spring with their EP, The Feeling Noise Becomes. The EP was a cherry bomb of barely…
This song came to me a while ago. Chris Hickey’s “Langston Hughes” is a mesmerizing, semi-spoken word piece about how we are all united by art and the universality of the human experience. Plus, Hickey gets extra points for being…
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…