Melody and storytelling come out the winners on Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear’s new EP
Kansas City, MO’s Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear might be a duo that’s connected by way of a parent-child relationship but, in some ways, it…
Skout carve out a welcoming “Space In Between” for light in dark times
What does it mean to go through tough times? The answer to such a question could almost be considered limitless. What’s tough for one person…
Band ahoy: Punch Brothers navigate DIY waters with “All Ashore”
When a band like Punch Brothers comes along – one with a steeply curved and balanced pool of musicianship, variety of sounds, and simultaneously kindred yet…
The heart behind Carrie and the Cats’ new music video “Feels Like Gold”
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. That’s how the saying goes. Something less than ideal pops up in life and with one twist of…
Florence + the Machine come way down to earth with “High as Hope”
The time and tidbits leading up to the release of Florence and the Machine‘s newest album, High as Hope (Virgin/EMI, 2018), has yielded both excitement…
Get “Two Bottles In” and you’ll think ‘This is good, thanks!’
You can take the singer out of folk but you can’t take the folk out of the singer. This somewhat futile-sounding declaration isn’t meant to…
Boxer find the right hook with debut single “Stay Up” (Premiere Play)
Selecting a name like BOXER, one would imagine the accompanying band underneath the title as likely to be something hardcore or, at the very least,…
Cloud Caverns’ artistry flows on “Rivers Old and Lost”
There’s something poetic about the fact that multi-state duo, Cloud Caverns, have a two word name that brings to mind both something delicate and airy…
The Brad Mehldau Trio’s “Spiral” might throw you for a loop
The human sensory experience seems like something that should be notably reliable and yet time after time, society is shown instances where these basic processes,…
And it feels so right to listen to pronoun’s new single “wrong”
Much like her self-developed emphasis on all things “tiny,” Brooklyn songwriter Alyse Vellturo, known on stage as pronoun, is releasing music that’s very unassumingly sneaking…