5 Rounds With DL Rossi
With a new site layout comes new features! We all love learning more about our favorite artists, but we don’t all love listening to 30 – 60-minute interviews! So with 5 Rounds, we’re gonna keep things quick and dirty. (I…
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HEY! LISTEN: I&I — “Tonight”
Hot from the streets of…Norway? That’s right — there’s been a big Nordicana push lately, and I&I is one of my favorites of the bunch so far. They lean into a vintage, sun-drenched sound that, by all rights, should be…
HEY! LISTEN: Horse & Wells — “Going”
Is there anything better on a spring morning than a plaintive, lonely country song? Brooklyn-based Horse & Wells have perfected the art on “Going,” a sprawling composition of steel guitars and distortion — just the kind of alt-country we look…
INTERVIEW: Mackenzie Shivers Finds Freedom in Rejection Letters
Mackenzie Shivers’ new album Rejection Letters captures a special moment in the singer-songwriter’s practice: having had a creative spurt in the beginning of lockdown, Shivers recorded her collection of experimental songs up in Woodstock, NY. The writing and recording process…
PREMIERE: Run Katie Run — “15 Minutes”
One of the biggest lessons we’ve all learned in the past year is being content with what we’ve got. On “15 Minutes,” the Atlanta-based band ponders whether superstardom is really what they want — and what they’d even do with…