Cashavelly Morrison’s debut album, The Kingdom Belongs to a Child, is a remarkable pearl. Though the album bears Morrison’s name, the project is co-piloted by her husband, classical guitarist Ryan MacLeod. Cashavelly’s story is unusual in and of itself: a…
Samuel Barker is both a gentleman and a scholar. I know this to be true for the first because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my e-mail correspondence with him (and I owe him a follow-up) and for the second, he used to…
A quick note to my regular readers (which, according to my stats, is only about 13 of you) — if you’ve been keeping track at home you’ll have noticed that I’ve only been averaging about 3 updates a week since…
Quiet Hollers were one of the first bands I wrote about on here. Of the thousands of songs I’ve listened to since for the sake of the blog, there are several from their debut album, I Am the Morning, that…
Lest you decry the infiltration of synthesizers in all walks of music, it appears that punk is not dead in the Twin Cities. Nervous Breakthroughs is four songs by four different bands, and each offers a fresh take on a…