Behold the singer-songwriter: an individual and their guitar, maybe with a backing band. What makes one stand out from the pack? In Nick Shaheen’s case, it’s his subtle subversion of all the genre’s standbys: sweet love songs, the road song,…
Harlem might be an unlikely places for country music but Ben Hope embraces the incongruity with his Uptown Outfit. Hope is renowned for playing crooners like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Buddy Holly on Broadway. Hope is now turning his…
The Delta Routine’s last album, Cigarettes & Caffine Nightmares, was a tour de force of punk and energy. This time around, the band’s taken a chill pill. You And Your Lion has the Delta Routine doing their best impression of…
Listening to Chopek’s chunky, swaggering guitar riff, you’d be surprised to learn that he started off as a professional drummer. Though Chopek is in high demand holding down the beat, his natural curiosity led him to studying guitar and, eventually,…
I feel winded just typing out the name of this band, so from here on out I’m going to call them L^9. Like the band’s name, their music is deceptively whimsical but is, in fact, quite challenging. Last feels like…