INTERVIEW: The Roseline Age Out of “Catalpa”
The Roseline (pronounced rose like the flower, line like a straight line) is a band from Lawrence, Kansas USA. Six albums into their career, they have crafted a songbook that is at once familiar and singular. Founder and songwriter, Colin…
INTERVIEW: Call Me Rita Knows the Answer on Liberatory “Are You OK?”
Many of us began new pursuits in lockdown, digging deep into our creative resources and finding new forms of expression. Poet and artist Vanessa Jean Speckman is no different, but her band Call Me Rita is: a freewheeling rocket of…
INTERVIEW: Dalton Builds “Wailing Wall” With Bricks From Weezer, Bowie, and WU LYF
Dalton is the solo-project of indie musician Nate Harar. A multi-instrumentalist, Harar writes and produces every track on his own, recording them in his tiny studio apartment. With this no-nonsense approach, his music conveys easy-to-digest verses and infectious hooks through…
INTERVIEW: Cascade Cody Is Always at Home on the “Wenas Plains”
Cascade Cody’s a man of few words — at least about himself. He lets his music do the talking, and talk it does — as you can hear on his blistering “In Lieu of Love.” For Cody, being from Washington…
INTERVIEW: Linda Draper On the Ties that Bind — And Don’t — On “Tether”
On her new protest song “Tether,” anti-folk lifer Linda Draper deftly weaves together the mass traumas we’ve endured in the US in the last quarter-century: 9/11, the Great Recession, and COVID. Draper is getting set to release her new album…