Joplin Rice — Hurricane Alaska
I wrote about Joplin Rice’s Low Hum a few months ago, but Rice edged in another 2015 release at almost the last second. Rice has melancholy down to a fine art. Where Low Hum saw Rice alone in his bedroom…
Rachel Cholst
Top 10 of 2015
Apologies for my hiatus — I needed to turn into an elf for Santa for a couple of weeks. That and my physical exhaustion after teaching for most of a semester (my annual facial tick is gradually dying) made writing…
Mandy Rowden — These Bad Habits
Since I’ve mentioned it a few times in previous posts, I’d like the record to show that nobody has stepped forward to claim that they, too, have written a country song about U-Hauling. Ergo, mine is the first, only, and…
Birdcloud — Tetnis
In my quest to prove that I had indeed written the world’s first country song about U-Hauling, my spirit animal @NashvilleRage (who hates the town as much as I do, but they live there and I was only there for…
Two Nice Girls — 2 Nice Girls
I wanted to take this brief opportunity to unearth some minutiae of queer and indie rock history. A few months ago, I proudly declared on Facebook that I had written the world’s first country song about U-Hauling. One of my…