Dan Conn is a man after my own heart. He picked up guitar as a teenager, inspired by John Mellencamp. That love of strong melodies and shoot-from-the-hip lyrics has followed Conn over the decades and into his new album Shine…
Greg Hawks has been playing music for 30 years. That’s a long time to be doing anything, obviously, and at this point you’d hope to be good at it. It certainly shows on Hawks’ latest album, I Think It’s Time.…
We could all use a bit of unbridled joy. “Dead Flowers” is, as you can probably tell, not about ideal circumstances but that doesn’t mean Aloud doesn’t rip the lid off for this Rolling Stones cover. The LA-based soul rockers…
Miami might not be the first place you think of when discussing singer-songwriters, but American Darling Valve is about to put it on the map. “Another Year or Two” plays along the border between jazz and folk. It’s an airy…
I have been a huge fangirl of Karen and the Sorrows for, like, a while. They started playing around town shortly after I moved back after college and the intersection of queerness, Jewishness, countryness, and — by complete coincidence —…