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B-Sides & Badlands debuts the latest single from Shannon Clark and the Sugar, “Like the Stars,” noting, “The song runs dark and brooding in the verses before ballooning on the chorus, anthem-style. ‘Where do you run to when there’s no place else you can call your own,’ sings Clark over palpitating percussion.”

Originally conceived as “a b-side style tune,” Clark says, the song morphed into something wholly different and cosmic. “We reworked it and recorded it live with minimal overdubs. Once the band felt it, it took on a life of its own,” the singer-guitarist tells B-Sides & Badlands. “It gave us this early ’90s alternative sound a bit, like an old R.E.M song but with a Tom Petty/Fleetwood Mac spin on it. It was much more a folk song in its original draft, and we might have cut this three times total — but the first take just had a certain charisma that we loved.”

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B-Sides & Badlands shares the new single from Megan & Shane, “Things Don’t Have to Change (Feat. Lillie Mae & Brit Taylor),” noting, “It’s the sort of star-studded collaboration we’re not likely to forget anytime soon.”

Heartache can do a number on you. It often leaves open wounds and scars, those markers that serve as constant reminders of what once was. With “Things Don’t Have to Change,” duo Megan and Shane work through Megan’s heartache, sifting through ash to find what’s left of her broken heart. “I don’t want to hold to the heartache or the pain / Yes, some things are different, but some things don’t have to change,” sings Megan. Enlisting Lillie Mae and Brit Taylor, the song flutters away into the stratosphere. It’s the sort of star-studded collaboration we’re not likely to forget anytime soon.

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B-Sides and Badlands debuts Shane Palko’s new single “Somehow”

“I found out what was right only by getting it wrong,” writes Rachel Joyce in her gut-pummeling book, “The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.” Through the eyes of the kind-hearted, perhaps far too naive, and sensitive Queenie Hennessy, you begin to unfurl truths about living, loving and dying from which the reader comes to greater understanding of their own journey. Indie-folk singer-songwriter Shane Palko finds himself and a version of such enriching knowledge through his musical adventures across the Tanzania earth – collecting insight and human encounters in his path. READ MORE…

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San Francisco singer/songwriter E.G. Phillips shares new video at B-Sides and Badlands

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Author and self-prescribed bird-man Noah Stryker examines the life and culture of birds, from various species like fairy-wrens and pigeons to starlings, and correlates behaviors to humanity with his book, The Thing with Feathers. “The more that humans study birds and discover more about their behaviors, the more similarities we find between ourselves and our feathered friends,” he writes in the Introduction, setting up his own assessments. READ MORE…

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B-Side and Badlands Reviews David Quinn’s “Gap Tooth Girl”

David Quinn, Indiana Copyright 2018

An homage to the 1987 short documentary, Gap-Toothed Women, directed by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling, Americana musician and singer David Quinn‘s new song is a whimsical, saloon-approved piano romper dedicated to, you guessed it, his own “Gap Tooth Girl.” He whips her across the dusty bar-room dance floor, the ivories pouring out as a summertime cloudburst, and with a flourish, the listener gets lost in the magic, too. “Love me slow / Never let me go / She’s the wildest woman I’m ever going to know / Dancing ’round the room till the morning time / Always on the move like Bonnie and Clyde,” sings Quinn, his voice dancing between the shadows of the low-hanging bar lights. It’s as ripe for front-porch pickin’ as it is for the hoedown at the local watering hole. Get to boot scootin’, yeehaw!

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