On her new protest song “Tether,” anti-folk lifer Linda Draper deftly weaves together the mass traumas we’ve endured in the US in the last quarter-century: 9/11, the Great Recession, and COVID. Draper is getting set to release her new album…
Sarah Osborne is a singer-songwriter from the west coast of Canada. Hailing from a musical family and holding a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology, this songstress and sea queen draws inspiration from the ballads of her childhood and the…
With the first beats of Jennifer Silva’s “Landline,” you know you’re in for something special. Maybe it’s her made-for-a-40s-lounge voice, the alluring opening line “You make me wanna get a landline,” or the supreme confidence that is suffused through the…
Country music has a well-earned reputation for being cheesy, blatantly commercial, and alienating to…well, it’s easier to describe who it doesn’t force out: cishet white people. But! It doesn’t have to be this way, and never did. That’s the whole…
Two nights ago, the country music world shifted. Like most tectonic movements, we may not see it for a while. But with the Black Opry‘s first-ever Revue at New York City’s Rockwood Music Hall, Holly G has gathered a few…
Gregory Dwane is a lifer. From his humble “two turntables and a microphone” beginnings in rural North Carolina to eventually touring around the world as a tech and his recent work as producer for Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls,…
“I never make a good first impression,” Katie Callahan jokes. “You have to meet me twice.” But if you look and listen closely, you’ll see the groundwork she lays for a quiet but simmering revolution, all the complexity of an…
In these dark days of stark societal uncertainty and pronounced cultural intolerance, could the illuminating words of the world’s greatest poet and champion of tolerance and love inspire dialogue and spark a constructive collective conversation where pundits and politicians cannot?…