Stone Machine Electric’s Sonic Journeys
In an era when attention spans have been atomized into mere microseconds by the constant barrage of rapid-paced, seizure-inducing digital content steadily beamed into...
Hindsight on 2020
One day, when we look back on the unholy year that has been 2000 and 10 times two, the cataloguing of unbearable tragedies, atrocities,...
OK, ALG
ALG’s new album is the sound of the band “working together.” That’s according to multi-instrumentalist Austin Gardea (Squeezebox Bandits). Oh, K is the instrumental prog...
Song for Atatiana
Few events in recent memory have shaken Fort Worth like the killing of Atatiana Jefferson. The 28-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed...
Controlling the Noise
The writing dynamics inside of bands vary almost as broadly as the stylistic sonic fruits of those dynamics. There are some groups in which...
Panorama View
COVID doesn’t care about your damn music. Clint Niosi knows this firsthand. The moody singer-songwriter was about halfway through production of a new EP...
The Guitar Makes the Man
There’s always been a sticky commingling between classic C&W and rock music that has existed in so-called alt-country, or Americanan, or whichever other buzzy,...
KatsüK
KatsüK got the idea for his new album the way most artists do: touring New Zealand.
Around the time of the veteran singer-songwriter’s quest to...
The Sweet $potify
I’m right there with you. I need my daily dose of Baby Boomer bullshit to carry me through the day, and Spotify does right...
Uncaging A Songbird
Summer Lane Emerson found herself in a deep depression earlier this year. The sudden impact of the COVID-19 pandemic brought the country-influenced gospel singer...