Ten years ago today, I asked a question: what do these bands have in common? And for the past ten years, I’ve been searching for the answer. This is primarily an Americana blog, but that doesn’t stop me from featuring…
Siberian Express is a Toronto-based band focused on delivering music that resonates with one’s misspent youth. On the band’s new single “Loser,” Siberian Express revel in crunchy ’90s grunge as they try to make sense of it all. Who are…
Lena Younes is something of a cosmopolitan, having lived all around Western Europe pursuing various studies — from a PhD in Florence that she ultimately abandoned in favor of studying and teaching yoga. Her transformative explorations of breathwork reawakened her…
Dustin Dale Gaspard hails from the rural southern community of Cow Island, Louisiana, a landscape of mysterious rich marshland, ancient shrouding oak trees, and dream-inducing days and nights. The open pastures, whispering cane fields, and smothering earth tones offer him…
XOHA is a profound young woman of inner and outer strength, academic excellence, societal awareness, and blood that’s laced with the sweet melodies of rich musicology. Ever since she was 5, music and performance, as a whole, have been part…
Don Pedigo is one of Nashville’s finest singer-songwriters, whose old-soul rock and roll vibe and thoughtful lyricism takes you on an introspective adventure, leaving you not only wanting to know more about his music but also about yourself. Pedigo describes…
Nashville musician Huck Hayden has a dry sense of humor. For one thing, he keeps his own personal information brief, describing his music as “vision quest” music and bemoaning the fact that Happy Meals did nothing to alleviate the pain…
I published a playlist of Jewish country music back in September and went mini-viral on Jewish Twitter. With Hanukkah coming up on November 28th, I wanted to update the playlist with seasonally appropriate tunes. You can find the full updated…