Ed Tang has all the right ingredients for a fantastic album: raspy voice, just the right mix of distortion and acoustic guitars, and some choice literary references (Catch-22 and Death of a Salesman are two of my favorite 20th century…
The Porter Draw has got to stop hiding in New Mexico and make themselves known to the world. This is good stuff. I have a confession to make: I’ve been taking a songwriting class. I didn’t mention it before now…
Benny No-Good, like many of the gents on this blog, started his music career as a punk rocker. If you’re from the Midwest, you may know him as the frontman for Indiana hardcore band The Enders. If not, you’ll enjoy…
The dog chewed up my earbuds the other day. You’d think that’d be enough to make me decide to just shell out for a pair of studio headphones. I didn’t want to because I feel like attaching those giant bulky…
Nettie Rose has quite a pedigree. Her grandfather, Alan Freed, created the term “rock’n’roll.” Both her parents were involved in the backstage end of the business. But Rose isn’t some dilettante with an acoustic guitar. Her voice has a helluva…
I haven’t been to New London. Really, it’s just a place that you go through. It’s a convenient halfway point between New York and Boston and it had some kind of industry (submarines?) there back in the day. Like most…
I brought Morgan Manifacier to your attention a few days ago. He recently released an album full of more singer-songwriter goodness. Hues and Calm is a completely different experience than Manifacier by himself, though. Manifacier showed off his guitar chops…
Kick-ass country singer Garrison Starr (one of the first ladies of country to come out in the ’90s) has started a new side project called This, The Silent War. I’m not a fan of lyric videos, but I do rather…