A New Angle
My meeting with Local Famous Records co-founders Anthony Sosa (Temporal Distortions) and Michael Garcia (Double Bear) started with a handshake and ended with hugs...
Ashes to Ashes
Let’s play a word association game. When I say “surf rock,” what comes to mind? You’re thinking California, Brian Wilson, the ‘60s, maybe Dick...
Kings of Madness
For most of us, the events that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 elicited a mix of shock and horror. The breach...
Your Summer Playlist
I’m sure you’ve read by now about the massive emergence of Brood X cicadas now dominating the eastern seaboard. After being dormant for 17...
Big Heaven
The charts of today’s era are dominated by formulaic pop. So much so that as an adolescent, I developed a strong distaste for the...
Curating the Art of Noise
When thinking of towns with reputations as epicenters for wild, experimental, and fiercely underground artistic movements, it’s likely the usual suspects cross your mind....
Meet Godbold
When I asked Godbold about himself, because there’s not much available on him online, other than his stellar R&B/rap tracks, I was a little...
Meach Pango
The last show that Meach Pango played pre-lockdown was at the John Ed Keeter Public Library. That’s not the tongue-in-cheek name of a hipster...
The Zen of Beatmaking
As the technology has been scaled down to the consumer level, practically anyone with a computer can become a “producer.” Digital music production software...
Levi Ray
A stellar lineup of singer-songwriters piled onto Tulips FTW’s stage Saturday night in celebration of one of their own. Levi Ray had just released...
