The band’s lead singer and primary songwriter, Meghan Galbraith, passed away in January 2015 after a prolonged illness. Mean Days, which was released shortly after her death and is finally being issued digitally, is Galbraith’s last studio album. READ MORE…
Musician Misty Boyce spares no topic or target on her forthcoming album, which strikes a balance between personal and shared experience. READ MORE…
Music, at its best, is a statement in a larger conversation. The Mean Days by 8 Inch Betsy is a particularly great example of this.
The Mean Days is a collection of 14 songs being released digitally five and a half years after the tragic death of lead singer Meghan Galbraith. READ MORE…
Steph Bishop and Robert Maril, former bandmates in queer country outfit Kings, spent years apart before reuniting as Tender Creature. Leaning into the uncertainties of transformation, instead of struggling to recreate something long gone, is in part what makes the duo’s electronic folk-pop debut, An Offering, so compelling. READ MORE…
Rev. Greg Spradlin and The Band of Imperials: Singer-guitarist Spradlin shines on this remarkable album that was released July 17 on the Out of the Past label. He and a stellar band of all-stars, including David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, former Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas and the late keyboardist Rudy Copeland, generate a gloriously greasy convergence of rock, country, blues, soul and gospel that sounds perfect and timeless.
