Virgil Shaw: At the Time I Didn’t Care Virgil Shaw is a musician located in the Bay Area of California who has a new album, At the Time I Didn’t Care, on Rocks in Your Head records.The album has a raw open quality, especially his vulnerable vocals, which is irresistible to Americana music fans. We had […]
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During the isolation of quarantine, The Steel Wheels sought to continue flexing their creative muscles, which was no easy feat considering the distance between them. That’s when they embarked on a songwriting adventure that would come to shape the last two years of the band – crafting songs based on the personal stories and experiences […]
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Midge Ure — Interview It is impossible to write a brief, clever introduction that encompasses the entirety of Midge Ure’s career. He has done so much, from fronting Ultravox and serving as one of the principal creators of Live Aid, to helping to form Band Aid and co-writing the massively successful charity single “Do They […]
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Brandy Zdan — Falcon Interview Songwriting veteran and former member of The Trishas, Brandy Zdan is back in the spotlight with her third solo album, the extremely personal Falcon, which is set to soar from speakers on October 29. The reflective songwriting found throughout the nine-song release – which she also produced and engineered – […]
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Scott Klopfenstein and Tahlena Chikami — Interview What if we are more than dust in the wind? What if we are land masses surrounded by water and continuously moving in the direction of its flow? What if we are… islands in the stream? Maybe I’m digging too deep here, but the surprise duet from Scott […]
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When Joe Nolan was unable to drift from club to club to support his 2020 album Drifters, he set a goal for himself to have another record locked and loaded in time for touring to once again commence. Although writer’s block struck in the earliest days of the pandemic, the Canadian Folk Music Awards-nominated singer-songwriter […]
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Jaclyn Reinhart — Sleep With Ghosts interview While Jaclyn Reinhart’s new EP Sleep With Ghosts reveals the emotional scars left behind from the challenges she has faced, she is also unafraid to share the inner workings of her impassioned past and hopes to take her listeners on a journey from “hurt to hopeful.” The 5-song […]
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Will Johnson interview by Brian DeSpain Will Johnson is a member of several bands, including Centro-Matic, South San Gabriel, Monsters of Folk and the duo Marie/Lepanto (with Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster), and project bands such as the Woody Guthrie lyric-driven New Multitudes. Johnson has hit the road for a solo run of shows in Tulsa, Little […]
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Hard Luck Love Song photo from l to r: Writer/Director Justin Corsbie, Todd Snider, Fiona Prine, and Producer Allison Smith Based on the interpretive lyrics of Todd Snider’s “Just Like Old Times,” the new film Hard Luck Love Song (in theaters now) is an indie-driven affectionate embrace of Americana music starring Michael Dorman and Sophia […]
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Al Staehely — Interview When Geraldo Rivera opened up Al Capone’s vault live on television in 1986, he found… nothing. The same could not be said for music industry veteran Al Staehely when he recently opened his own personal vault and found a treasure trove of recordings dating back to the 1970s and ‘80s, many […]
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