There are few good things to say about pop country right now but the people who are doing good work deserve your ears, and Hailey Whitters is one of them. Whitters’ early material has a deliciously bitter edge, and after…
When I started this blog eleven years ago, I thought I had it mostly figured it out. I had the career stuff down, I was making good money for a 22-year-old, and I was doing what I’d always wanted to…
Sara Petite is absolutely transcendent on her recent album The Empress. The guitar slinger nonchalantly ducks and weaves between outlaw country, rock’n’roll, and folk gracefully. She ties it all together with her rich storytelling, ricocheting from trailer parks to dive…
Earlier this winter, I stuffed myself into an oddly-shaped room in a former Bushwick warehouse. The room was, at best, 6 people wide and about 80 feet long. It was a familiar scene, something I did throughout my twenties. But…
I’ve been on an intense Ursula K LeGuin kick lately (hyperfixation, you might say?) Specifically, I’ve been enchanted by the Earthsea series, one of those masterpieces of fantasy literature that is marketed to YA audiences because the language is simple,…