The daughter of NSA linguists, Suzy Callahan writes dark, dreamy songs filled with vivid, raw emotional honesty and delivers them in an unfried, thick and creamy dulce de leche voice. A little country, a little folk, a little psychedelic. Raised…
Scarlett Siren & The Howlin’ Tramps are a musical collective formed in Portland, Oregon. Fronted by burlesque performer and Songwriter ‘Scarlett Siren’, the 5-piece blend the traditional with the unusual to cultivate an eclectic concoction of music now coined as…
If you’ve been following me on the social medias, you know I’ve been teasing an announcement for the past week. Well, here it is! I am launching the Rainbow Rodeo Newsletter, a companion to the Rainbow Rodeo zine. The newsletter…
Singer/songwriter Matt Aquiline repatriated to his home town of Pittsburgh after two decades living and performing in Washington, DC. To help bring his sound home (and some “home” to his sound), Aquiline enlisted a group of musicians with long and distinguished…
Sofia Nunzia is a 15-year-old singer-songwriter who lived in the Raleigh area of North Carolina for most of her life before relocating to New England in 2019. Unique among teen singer-songwriters, her music style can best be classified as “nostalgia…
No stranger to this blog, Ron Pope has some gorgeous new music out. Having spent his lockdown becoming enamored of his young daughter, Pope’s music — previously a mix of good-time rock and heartbreak songs that remind me of a…
Hey, gang. I got a little tied up with finals and never made a December episode for Adobe & Teardrops. That’s embarrassing, because December 8th is Adobe & Teardrops’ tenth anniversary! I begin with a an all-time top 10 countdown…
Finnish songwriter, producer and guitarist Petter Näse may cite ’80s hair metal as his main influences, but his new country-tinged release “Highs and Lows” sounds like what would happen if Petty and Zevon took some quaaludes together. Early Signs beautifully…