If the title doesn’t grab you, the jaunty guitar hook should. If all else fails, how about the first line? “The devil can fuck right off/And suck me dry/I’m going to Heaven when I die.” This is no grungy outlaw…
With a new site layout comes new features! We all love learning more about our favorite artists, but we don’t all love listening to 30 – 60-minute interviews! So with 5 Rounds, we’re gonna keep things quick and dirty. (I…
Hot from the streets of…Norway? That’s right — there’s been a big Nordicana push lately, and I&I is one of my favorites of the bunch so far. They lean into a vintage, sun-drenched sound that, by all rights, should be…
Is there anything better on a spring morning than a plaintive, lonely country song? Brooklyn-based Horse & Wells have perfected the art on “Going,” a sprawling composition of steel guitars and distortion — just the kind of alt-country we look…
Hi, everyone! Welcome to Episode 166! My brain is in vacation mode. As you may have seen on Twitter, one of my friends’ parents bought a giant mcmansion on the Hudson River that used to be a bed and breakfast…and…
Mackenzie Shivers’ new album Rejection Letters captures a special moment in the singer-songwriter’s practice: having had a creative spurt in the beginning of lockdown, Shivers recorded her collection of experimental songs up in Woodstock, NY. The writing and recording process…
One of the biggest lessons we’ve all learned in the past year is being content with what we’ve got. On “15 Minutes,” the Atlanta-based band ponders whether superstardom is really what they want — and what they’d even do with…
We’ve been watching a lot of Halt and Catch Fire, a period drama about a tech startup in Texas in the 80s. The soundtrack is rife with punk, New Wave, and heavy synth music. Honestly, it sounds a lot like…