Required listening list
Remember when teachers in school would hand out or mail home lists of essential books for you to read over the summer before starting the…
The timely case of Michael A. Grant declaring “It’s Not Really The Apocalypse”
Writing an album that tackles evergreen topics, personality archetypes, or problems isn’t a new art. However, there’s something to be said for the cleverness of…
Tycho expands the world of “Weather” with new single “Outer Sunset”
While the hyperactivity of the Grammys is by no means the fundamental propeller behind Tycho’s latest batch of releases since moving over to Mom +…
CMT Crossroads: Three chords, the truth, and female artists
Early yesterday, January 21, Viacom Media owned television channel, CMT (Country Music Television), announced via Twitter that all CMT branded channels would immediately institute complete…
This “Airport CEO” is thinking bigger than fancy lounge music
While much game music that’s made today can be triumphant as art on its own, the lack of equal footing with games themselves oddly also…
Don’t panic and “Stay Calm” with The Beat Freaks’ new album
Together with a four piece band containing no instruments outside the staples of typical jazz performance and an album titled Stay Calm,The Beat Freaks set…
The hills are alive with the Sound & Fury of Sturgill Simpson’s “Sing Along”
It’s funny that right as the beginnings of this piece were being typed into the void of the internet, a surely-destined-to-go-viral-among-music-journalists piece on the struggle…
Fantastic Negrito doesn’t sew his message short with the “The Suit That Won’t Come Off”
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. from The Invisible Man, by author, Ralph Ellison. A man of Grammy-winning prestige, Xavier Amin…
Stephen Christian embraces His name with “Wildfires”
Stephen Christian is a man of many talents, a wearer of many hats, and an artist with many voices. The last one in that quick…
Take a stroll with singer-songwriter Stephen Babcock
Winter has officially arrived! Though the days are no longer getting shorter, temperatures sure haven’t been their highest and the air is definitely taking on…