Don’t go into Brad Gerke’s Burden expecting resolution. That’s for the next album. According to Gerke’s statement on Bandcamp, Burden was nearly complete in a burst of productivity right when Gerke completed his previous album. But we all know how…
Elliah Heifetz is a first-generation American singer-songwriter born to political refugees. After writing musicals and pop songs with premier Broadway & Hollywood talent, Elliah turned to his first love—folk music—to sing his own story. In 2018, he released his first…
You never know what kind of mark you’ll leave on other people. I just ran into a student I taught four years ago. He gave me a big hug. I’m not saying I had a large part in his decision…
On paper, Mrs. Greenbird would have been a difficult sell for me: male-female duet, emphasis on the”pop” part of folk pop, a Gothic tinge, big arrangements. Usually that’s an instant “no” for me but there’s a reason Mrs. Greenbird won…
If a thousand-yard stare could be turned into music, it’d be DL Rossi’s new album A Sweet Thing (out this Friday.) The 7-song record packs a mighty wallop, distilling Rossi’s past few years of hellish setbacks: cancer, divorce, substance use,…