Alli Patton

A refugium is a haven when conditions are unfavorable. In biology, it’s a space where at-risk organisms can survive against the odds. In anthropology, it’s a hideaway for human life, a place where existence can stare down the yawning maw of catastrophe and still glimpse hope. Simply put,

All hat, no cattle is a term that is often synonymous with “poser” or “imitator,” used to call out those unable to fill certain boots. With the recent rise of Western wear producing a fleet of concrete cowpokes, and as more cross-genre stars try on country music for size, the

Night and day. If you were to line up Marcus King’s 2024 solo release, Mood Swings, against his latest effort, Darling Blue, that’s what you’d experience, the radical difference between an artist seized by shadows and one caught in the light. If the former, a viscous voyage

In the forward to Jeff Tweedy’s latest solo release, Twilight Override, the alt-folk prophet speaks of his art with such intensity, likening the God-like act of creating to a snapping maw, chomping away at the pervasive darkness.  Darkness. It’s something to which our souls have recently been forced

“Here’s a piece of my heart and soul…” Tommy Prine sings in the final words of his EP, Love Circle. By its fragile end, the silence swallowing gauzy keys and silken strings, the abbreviated project – a follow up to his lauded 2023 debut This Far South – has seen the

From the meaty rhythms of Black Sabbath, the belligerent hooks of AC/DC and sludgy riffs of Metallica then-thirteen-year-old Brent Cobb earned an unorthodox education, one that would enlighten his musical beginnings in the garages of his youth. Some two decades later, those same snarling strings and frenzied beats – sounds