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Artist Essay: A Film For Every Month of the Year by Nathan Deming

Growing up in Wisconsin, I have always been fascinated by how time and place affects and distorts us, our environment informs everything we do. ...

zzzahara – Spiral Your Way Out (2025) Album Review

Hello Reader, Welcome back to the site and to my first review of 2025. This has been a rough start to the year after a...

Unfiltered Underdog: Red Ribbon Is Back With No Holds Barred Record

Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Emma Danner is done putting a filter on her songwriting. Following a move from Seattle and Los Angeles and a...

Artist Essay: To Sing and Dance is a Birthright by Aja Volkman of Nico Vega

Throughout my life, I’ve had many conversations about whether anyone can learn to sing—and whether everyone should sing. It’s an interesting topic because the...

Artist Essay: Now You Know Everything By Greg Copeland

I don't know, what do you think. I'm 78, and this is the weirdest time I've ever been alive. It's the first time I've...

X – Smoke & Fiction (2024) Album Review

Hello Reader, Welcome back. Or if this is your first time here, welcome! Today we're going to delve into X. That's right the one and only...

Artist Essay: How the Replacements Shaped Swerve’s Identity By Greg Mahdesian

How could I pass up this opportunity to wax lyrical about the Replacements? When we released our debut album, Ruin Your Day, the press...

Artist Essay: On Writing as a Path to Understanding By Sarah Grace White

I was in shock, sitting in my little chair, my roommates going about their morning business in the kitchen, gripping at my journal like...

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The Long Way Back: On Craft, Clarity, and Coming Back to Me By Erin Duvall (Artist Essay +Song Premiere)

Editor's Note: Erin Duvall is a stellar singer-songwriter from...

Song Premiere: Sky Smeed – “Hanging On”

When Lawrence, Kansas folk and country singer-songwriter Sky Smeed...

Singles Spotlight: The Pretty Flowers – “To Be So Cool”

Hello reader, How are you today? We’re excited once again to...

Singles Spotlight: Blue Twisted Steel – “Lowlight”

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Pert Near Sandstone – Side By Side (2026) Album Review

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