Just like the White Rabbit in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, our reporter, August March, was very late for an important meeting with Albuquerque music magicians and rising rock and roll wunderkinds Lindy Vision that occurred over the weekend. READ MORE…
Fans of Atlanta’s Nikki & The Phantom Callers do not have to hail from the Bible belt for their well-intentioned family’s faith to complicate their bouts with depression. And well beyond what folks in Alabama and Georgia call “Baptist guilt”, mental health issues carry a stigma that’s slowly but surely being socially demystified. READ MORE…
While working a summer job in the New Mexican backwoods as a teenager, David Burchfield and his friends spent their evenings playing music around the campfire. This experience taught him two things that would change his life: he realized that his heart belonged to the Rocky Mountains, and he learned that a great song doesn’t need bells and whistles to be powerful. READ MORE…
Arizona-based experimental pop outfit, Emby Alexander, are unquestionably adept at crafting resplendent, oblique and big-hearted hooks that relentlessly shift and wriggle, as is the nature of their infectious, experimental pop schema. Touring extensively and playing festivals throughout North America, the band has garnered international recognition, opening for The Dodos on their 10-year anniversary tour of Visiter, and sharing bills with Weyes Blood, Courtney Marie Andrews, Miniature Tigers, Chicano Batman and more.
Bad Luck is Novak’s fourth album following 2018’s Someone Else’s War, 2016’s The Last Three Years, and her 2014 debut Chasing Ghosts. Novak co-produced Bad Luck with Brad Lyons, who also recorded and mixed the record out of Homewood, Alabama’s Boutwell Studios. While Novak’s songwriting takes center stage, she’s joined on the album by her husband and guitarist Kelen Rylee, drummer Blake Bolton, and pedal steel guitarist Ford Boswell. Novak plays bass and pedal steel.
Frontman Harry Kagan of rock outfit Music Band believes in the power of a “good kind of anxiety” and used that feeling as a tool to carve out his latest single. Additionally, Kagan explores how anxiety as well as other driving emotions have shaped his songwriting over the years. READ MORE…