Many of us began new pursuits in lockdown, digging deep into our creative resources and finding new forms of expression. Poet and artist Vanessa Jean Speckman is no different, but her band Call Me Rita is: a freewheeling rocket of…
Dalton is the solo-project of indie musician Nate Harar. A multi-instrumentalist, Harar writes and produces every track on his own, recording them in his tiny studio apartment. With this no-nonsense approach, his music conveys easy-to-digest verses and infectious hooks through…
Cascade Cody’s a man of few words — at least about himself. He lets his music do the talking, and talk it does — as you can hear on his blistering “In Lieu of Love.” For Cody, being from Washington…
On her new protest song “Tether,” anti-folk lifer Linda Draper deftly weaves together the mass traumas we’ve endured in the US in the last quarter-century: 9/11, the Great Recession, and COVID. Draper is getting set to release her new album…
Sarah Osborne is a singer-songwriter from the west coast of Canada. Hailing from a musical family and holding a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology, this songstress and sea queen draws inspiration from the ballads of her childhood and the…