Somehow we’re at the end of August, somehow I have reconstituted into a human being, somehow my grad school classes have started. But also, there’s so much wonderful music out there — a daily miracle, truly. This playlist is a…

Shawna Virago is one of the nation’s first openly transgender musicians to perform and tour nationally, and has performed as an out transwoman since the early 1990s. Virago is a songwriter celebrated for her striking lyric-based songs. Her songs twist…

A couple of months ago, I heard Addison Wesley and Tyler Childers back-to-back on Ninebullets Radio and I thought to myself “hmm — there sure is a lot of great music out of Kentucky!” So that got me to looking…

Jonathan Paull Gertler confronts the world with his sunny acoustic rock on his upcoming album No Fear (out on September 10.) On “I Wish I Knew,” premiered here on Adobe & Teardrops, Gertler tries to build empathy with others, humbly…

The ongoing experiment in Spotify playlists continues! I’m keeping the songs from last week up just to give the list some depth, and I’ll remove them next week. I think that’s how it works, right? I guess there’s no rules!…