The Mars McClanes are a rock band born in Dallas, TX, but currently based in Portland, OR. They cut their teeth in honky tonks around Texas, evidenced by the hard-hitting guitar slinging in “The Liar.” The song is frenetic with…
Kit Lindsey’s love of music shines through in her epic gothic tale “Appalachian Sunday.” The murder ballad — a feminist twist on an old tale with a modern morally ambiguous lens — soars with emotion and simmers with tension. In…
Led by Nashville-based songwriter Andrew Scott Wills (who can boast hits in both contemporary Christian country music and pop country), Hawken Horse speaks to the awe of West and the characters who populate its history: cowboys, Native people, the good,…
Andie Mechanic’s new single “down to size” gets raw — quickly. The folk song dives deep into Mechanic’s teenage body dysmorphia — so I would definitely advise a content warning for anyone with or recovering from an eating disorder. That…
Ask Riktor Johansen is a 28-year-old from the town Harstad in Northern Norway. He has been making music since he learned to write, and has, among other things, participated in Norwegian Idol as a semifinalist in 2016. He did his…