Wild and Untamed Thing
Young singer-songwriter Jessie Frye draws from odd influences to take The Delve.
By JIMMY FOWLER
Arlington singer-songwriter Jessie Frye sounds older than her 19 years on...
Birth of the Cool
Bertha Coolidge gigs are about as infrequent -- but as blazing -- as falling stars, mainly because the band is truly only a band...
New Local Music
Joe Savage’s Songs Worth Singing
A century removed from the way Hank done it and decades after the heyday of Townes, Willie, and Waylon, and...
Scorched Earth
We are survivalists. Quickly and accurately, we must use our eyes and ears (and sometimes noses) to separate the people who will happily pick...
Blonde Ambition
Dylan Owens is a different breed of punk. Bad Blonde’s twentysomething frontman is an anti-millennial –– confident with an air of positivity yet unfazed...
Killer or Filler?
In a few short years, Fungi Girls have released two 7-inch singles, a demo EP (Psilo), and a 12-inch LP (2009’s Seafaring Pyramids), and...
New Local Music
Matthew McNeal’s Compadre
The opening electric guitar lick on Matthew McNeal’s new debut album grabbed my ear from the get-go. The lick sounded kinda country,...
Ryan Adams
After Ryan Adams’ startling debut, Gold, in 2001, he seemed to start spitting out a record every six months or so. By the time...
Strings
When you know just about everything there is to know about the guitar, you can do pretty much anything musically. "I can't remember not...
Squanto’s Spear of Density
For fans of ’90s trip-hop, early Beck, glitchwerks, the poetry of John Ashbery and Jorie Graham, and music as people 30 and older probably...
