I relate a little too well to The Roseline’s new single, “I Was a Gun.” The holidays are a hard time to be a teacher: if you think it brings up a lot of bad feelings for you, it’s worse…
Humbird rails against white supremacy in her powerful psych-folk song “Child of Violence.” As I’ve said in the past, what makes a song anti-racist is not the message that “racism is bad” so much as acknowledging one’s complicity in it…
Sully Bright’s latest EP, Darling, Wake Up, is an album of love and fear. Born in the small town of Forest City near the mountains of North Carolina, Bright bonded over rock legends with his father (the Eagles are a…
On Saturday I was hanging out with my high school friends. As one does, we remarked on the passage of time, how weird it is for our peers to be having children, and, since my wife and I are teachers,…
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I’ve been writing about music for over ten years, and I don’t think anybody can sing the word “asshole” as sweetly as Malena Cadiz. I’ve also been writing about Cadiz’s music for almost that long, so I can say that…
You know that feeling after the holidays where you’re sad because you have to return to real life? West Virginia’s Mink’s Miracle Medicine knows the feeling all too well and give it its own gorgeous waltz on “Christmas Is Over.”…
I’m not sure if much more can be said about frog. That’s not a bad thing — I’ve been writing about them for years and their output has been consistent, and consistently excellent. (You can read more about frog in…