Rachel Cholst — Rough Draft EP
Is it gauche to plug your own music on your own music blog? If it’s wrong then I won’t mention this again except for the “About Me” page. While I don’t think any of these songs particularly sound like my…
Rachel Cholst
Becky Shaw — shut down, jump in
If you’ve been paying attention to this blog for a while, you’ve already heard Becky Shaw’s work with alterna-grass band Roxie Watson, and in Sonia Tetlow‘s work over the years. Though Shaw has been an Atlanta indie rock staple for…
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…
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…