The Montvales Find Divine Synchronicity on “Bad Faith”
The Montvales play stripped-down, banjo-and-harmony-driven songs that stick with you. Their shows will take you to places both raucous and reverent, equal parts honky-tonk mischief and earnest meditation on friendship, heartbreak, and place. In our interview, the queer country duo…
Ali Sperry Finds Ways to Stay “Cool Under Pressure”
Ali Sperry, when faced with a year of trauma, racial reckoning, and downright worldwide existential crisis, did what she has always done — turned inward and wrote songs that channeled, mirrored and ultimately DISTILLED those cultural currents — distilled is…
INTERVIEW: Rebecca Porter Summons Classic Country To Create “Prime Rainbow Conditions”
Rebecca Porter is a Harrisonburg-based singer and songwriter making her way from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Rebecca commands any stage with her genre-bending, uniquely powerful voice – seasoned with a dash of country and sassy, southern heart and soul.…
INTERVIEW: Suzy Callahan Lets Go On “I’m Nothing”
The daughter of NSA linguists, Suzy Callahan writes dark, dreamy songs filled with vivid, raw emotional honesty and delivers them in an unfried, thick and creamy dulce de leche voice. A little country, a little folk, a little psychedelic. Raised…
WATCH THIS: The Dead End Streets Exult in Roots Rocker “Seems I Survived”
Singer/songwriter Matt Aquiline repatriated to his home town of Pittsburgh after two decades living and performing in Washington, DC. To help bring his sound home (and some “home” to his sound), Aquiline enlisted a group of musicians with long and distinguished…