CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Seasoned Artists with Crowdfunding Campaigns
A quote, attributed to everyone from George Bernard Shaw to Oscar Wilde, goes “youth is wasted on the young.” I think that's a bit unfair to my friends in Gen Z and whatever we're calling the next generation now that we've run out of
ALBUM REVIEW: Trapper Schoepp Follows Multiple Callings on ‘Siren Songs’
There are two kinds of sirens: warnings and invitations. Trapper Schoepp has filled his new album, Siren Songs, with a wide variety of them, including the calls of good and frightening love, the sea’s terrible lure, and even the sirens that aren’t sirens.
Schoepp recorded Siren Songs at
ALBUM REVIEW: Esther Rose Embraces the Messy and the Mature on ‘Safe to Run’
Esther Rose is a songwriter for trying times. Be it the too frequent extremes of climate change or the loneliest moments of a co-dependent relationship, she articulates that dizzying mix of melancholy and anxiety with astounding empathy. Listening to each of Rose’s records chronologically is like hearing her
No Depression’s Roots Music Shopping List for Record Store Day 2023
For 16 years now, Record Store Day has nudged music lovers toward their favorite independent shops, a reminder of the community these stores can build as well as the need for customers to pop in every now and them to keep them alive.
As local stores plan live performances, sales,
THROUGH THE LENS: Australia’s Byron Bay Bluesfest Charges Back Full Strength for 2023
Byron Bay Bluesfest is Australia’s premier roots music festival, regularly named by both artists and the music industry as one of the world’s best. This was the first Bluesfest with a full roster of international artists since 2019, as the 2020 and 2021 editions were abruptly canceled due
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Cadence,’ Cinder Well Finds Beauty in the Dark Places
Celtic mythology speaks of “thin places,” locations where the barrier between this world and the otherworld is permeable. Cadence, the new album from Cinder Well, is filled with thin places, moments when a strummed chord or a sung note is left to hang for just a second or two. It&