INTERVIEW: The Sundogs Rock Out to Tom Petty, NASCAR

INTERVIEW: The Sundogs Rock Out to Tom Petty, NASCAR

ByRachel CholstAug 11, 2021

Brothers Lee and Will Haraway started performing together as children in Millington, Tenn., having learned to sing and play from their parents’ Beatles, Stones and Creedence records. They formed The Sundogs in Atlanta, GA in the early 2000s and quickly…

INTERVIEW: Finding Joy in “Americana” With Naomi Westwater

INTERVIEW: Finding Joy in “Americana” With Naomi Westwater

ByRachel CholstAug 10, 2021

I am completely intoxicated my Naomi Westwater’s music: adventurous songs that refuse to be limited by genre, pulling from jazz, reggae, folk, Laurel Canyon rock, and freak-folk. (You can hear some of her music on our brand new featured playlist…

INTERVIEW: “Golden Child” Mercy Bell On the Honor of a Lifetime

INTERVIEW: “Golden Child” Mercy Bell On the Honor of a Lifetime

ByRachel CholstAug 5, 2021

Sit in a room when Mercy Bell is singing, and you know you’re experiencing something special. Bell’s songs are deeply intimate, asking us to bear witness to her lowest lows and soaring heights. So it makes sense that for her…

INTERVIEW: Hard Work and Radical Self-Faith Buoy Brother Earl

INTERVIEW: Hard Work and Radical Self-Faith Buoy Brother Earl

ByRachel CholstAug 4, 2021

With a vibe that blends Laurel Canyon and blue collar, Brother Earl and The Cousins’ Down With My Ship EP, produced by Grammy winner Tim Hutton (Jimmy Cliff, Three Dog Night), is an impassioned yet fun romp through unrequited love,…

INTERVIEW: On The Jon Athans Project’s Melancholy Optimism

INTERVIEW: On The Jon Athans Project’s Melancholy Optimism

ByRachel CholstAug 3, 2021

Jon Athans Project (Jonathan Pretz) is an American singer/songwriter and musician from Reading, Pennsylvania. A combination of influences from the classic 60s and 70s songwriters he was raised on, like James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, and many modern…