The Amanda Broadway Band’s debut “The Ache” is painfully good
The musicality of Amanda Broadway has undergone a slew of stylistic shifts over the years. Starting out as a self-driven singer-songwriter in from Brockport, New…
Considering the path connecting compassion and community in music
Like many across the world, I saw, and was subsequently appalled, by the video footage of a large, non-distanced, unmasked, crowd facing the stage where…
Striking Matches swings for familiar fences with “Boring” new single
What part of a new song stands out most during that first listen can vary from person to person. Some people connect with the lyrics;…
Judah & the Lion’s “pictures” provide interpersonal perspective
A band like Nashville, Tennessee’s Judah & the Lion doesn’t need much in the way of an introduction the way a band fresh out of the neighborhood…
Amanda Broadway is singing for the spread of love and help of others
New Yorker-turned-long time Nashville transplant, Amanda Broadway, was one of the first artists interviewed on Throw the Dice and Play Nice. A blues/soul singer with a…
Nothing But the Silence: A sophisticated debut from Striking Matches
When a band hits the point of releasing their ever important debut album, that’s when listeners – new and pre-debut fans both – get a…
There’s “fun” and then there’s being “fundamentally cool”
It’s hard enough going through life trying to attain some definition of “majority acceptance” (especially in adolescence), to say nothing of the difficulty when one is…
Nashville: Everlasting editorial for songwriters?
Love is thing without expiration, right? As a subject, it has been the soul of more songs than can be counted throughout history. Nonetheless, it is…
Thinkin’ About “Me Without You” Brings on the Broadway Blues
Thank goodness it’s Friday. I’m so happy the weekend is just about here. Now I can look forward to coming home with the blues. I know…