Rachel Cholst

Rachel Cholst

Eric Peter Schwartz AND Campfest!

You may remember Eric Peter Schwartz as the guy with the delightful love song centered around Dungeons & Dragons. I was expecting more of the same on Schwartz’s latest release, Casual Ghosts. While Schwartz offers humble, humorous ditties like “Hot…

Krom — Mama Blue

Metal Postcard Records brings us another bizarrely tasty treat from the rock’n’roll underbelly of Southeast Asia. Krom’s trance-like blues brings us the seedy underbelly of a developing city (or is that my orientalist imagination?) Either way, the song is well…

Joseph Michael Wharton — Los Matando Abrazo

So I know I’m only halfway through the Spanish lessons on Duolingo, but shouldn’t the title be Los Matandos Abrazos? Anyway, Google translate tells me it means “the killing embraces.” Speculations on Spanish syntax aside, Joseph Michael Wharton’s music is…

Pearls Mahone — Echoes From the Prairie

You know what the world needs? More rockabilly. Pearls Mahone delivers with a voice that they just don’t make anymore. With a velvety Patsy Cline-like purr and a sense of reckless fun, Mahone’s an unholy alliance of demure 50s pin-up…