Juniper recounts a no-good, very bad day on “Thinking About You.” Is there anyone who’s not been driven to distraction by that one person they can’t get out of their head? But the song is by no means frenetic. Rather,…
Wolf Van Elfmand’s inventive songwriting has won him a place in my heart over the years. On “Don’t Call it Country,” the Brooklyn-based artist shines a light on all the diversity country music has to offer — a gentle ribbing…
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I relate a little too well to The Roseline’s new single, “I Was a Gun.” The holidays are a hard time to be a teacher: if you think it brings up a lot of bad feelings for you, it’s worse…
Humbird rails against white supremacy in her powerful psych-folk song “Child of Violence.” As I’ve said in the past, what makes a song anti-racist is not the message that “racism is bad” so much as acknowledging one’s complicity in it…