Joel Schwelling’s got it locked down on that sun-faded Americana vibe. Whether it’s a hard-hitting rock song as on his 2019 album The Getting Up, or the more gentle “Greenwood Drive,” Schwelling captures a sense of reserved detachment. On “Greenwood…
Whenever I see a new song from Max Garcia Conover, I get super excited. His music has a wonderful, consistent, insistent pulse with lyrics that are a rapid-fire wellspring of truth. On “world war 3,” Conover is struggling for answers…
Looks like somebody in Nashville has decided to put the guitars back in country music, and it’s a nice change! With Bailey Callahan’s new single “Bitter,” it’s also clear that there are a few people out there who can’t wait…
If you’ve spent any amount of time on queer social media, you know there’s a lot of gatekeeping. Lots of people struggling to define terms that are really in fact flexible — something that is at times liberating and at…
There’s no mystery to Addison Agen’s “My Kitchen Floor.” It’s a great fucking song. Agen, a contestant on The Voice, has an arresting voice that lands somewhere between Carole King and Courtney Marie Andrews. The song’s strong central image evokes…