I always appreciate songs that are simple enough for even me to figure out how to play on guitar. It’s sort of like watching movies from the ’40s — forcing yourself to work around restrictions ends up making for more…
The cover art on William Pilgrim’s new album shows Will and PM Romero — both men of color — getting beaten by white cops. It’s a chillingly prescient photo given current events, but the fact is it’s a fact of…
This year, the Paisley Fields’ lead singer took on the ambitious task of writing a new song a day for an entire year. The year was up a couple of months ago. “She’s No Angel” was one of the byproducts…
Flashback to fall 2007. I’m in the basement of my college’s cafeteria, sifting through our radio station’s (supposedly the first in the country) library of CDs and LPs. I never could figure out where the light switch in the library…
Howdy! I have two musical tidbits for you: First, I said some really nice things about Butchers Blind’s album Destination Blues about a year ago. The words I used were “They make me happy to be a music blogger.” If…