Cotinga
Landon Cabarubio was immediately gobsmacked by Njia Martin’s voice when he came across her music online a couple of years ago. He was just...
Olive Vox-y
If you live long enough, it’s inevitable that you will witness, to some degree, the culture of your youth being recycled into a subsequent...
The Troumatics Blast Off
Over the past few years, Stephen Troum decided that writing songs and playing out more were what he wanted to do. He joined local...
Nights Enter the Grackle
After a nearly 50-year career, Dennis González has turned his attention toward cataloging his 70 past exhibits that have spanned the globe and his...
Ready to Cancel Spotify?
One funny thing I noticed when I googled “Neil Young” this week: The Spotify icon is still the first choice in the results page’s...
Ozone
I don’t know what the best metaphor for Ozone’s 2020 genesis is. A forest fire clearing away the old growth so new trees can...
Hurry Up and Wait
For working musicians, a canceled gig is rarely a good thing, and Grady Spencer’s view on them is no exception. When I sat down...
Trying to Ride Out the Storm
We cannot wait until the day comes when we can write about something without having to acknowledge the context of the pandemic’s unprecedented effects...
A Most Efficient EP
Although it’s a certainty that some brownline-framed-glasses-sporting internet-bullying parvenu — armed with an underground music XP dwarfing that of the average mortal local music...
Shows of the Year
There’s no telling what the answer might have been when posed to the public writ large (getting pedicures?), but to us as insular, daylight-fearing...
