The Nearness of You: Emotive reality wrapped in the sweetest metaphors
While some of the rising songs of summer are focused entirely on channeling and cranking up the energy of crowded parties and festival jams, others…
Severed: Curse of Lono and the effort to break form
While the very name of the Americana genre elicits an immediate geo-based demographic and historical context, the rise thereof across the pond in the United…
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…
There’s a beautiful mess found in Cloud Caverns’ “Collective Memory”
Don’t be alarmed. The pace and demands of present day society often deem messy things as needing improvement or adjustment and thusly, not residing within…
Rue Snider lets listeners hear and see all with “Broken Window”
Americana, folk, punk, and a drop of country: Each are genres that could describe Brooklyn singer-songwriter Rue Snider. The New Yorker’s newest effort, Broken Window,…
Can Shlomo Franklin keep it together with a “Bag of Bones & Broken Dreams”? (Premiere Play)
Plenty of people in the world have been there: The relationship that is technically still active but is definitively eroding – like sands staring down…
Sawyer Fredericks shakes up his style with “A Good Storm”
The day-to-night, contrast-loaded setting of Sawyer Frederick’s rise to songwriter stardom might sound so drastic it doesn’t always seem real. Yet the modest, 17-year-old, from…
Said & Done: Stephen Babcock’s southern spin on the possibilities of love
A native New Yorker but namesake city transplant, Stephen Babcock describes himself in brief, as a “Northern boy [with a] southern heart.” Though an introduction…
A mosaic of musicianship: Talking with Megan Talay
Time is a funny thing. Proclamation that one has been “doing something for a long time,” usually leads to an implication of much accrued experience, and…
I love the new folks at home! (with apologies to Stephen Foster)
This piece is a special guest post by Salina Sias; a confidently genuine, singer-songwriter / producer from Brooklyn, NY and a Jill of many genres (Folk, Jazz, Blues…