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Joy and Pain
Many songwriters often disguise the depth of their meaning innocuously beneath a veneer of hooks and cheery melody. The contrast of infectious sing-alongs containing...
Luxe Records
They had been talking about opening a recording studio since before the lockdown, but now two local artists have finally done it.
Located on the...
Spring Palace in Bloom
It should be easy to bristle at the mildewed cliche that “rock ’n’ roll is a young man’s game.” Sure — ignoring for a moment the...
Pull the Pin
I was sitting at Cicada on a recent Sunday evening, talking with a guy named Raleigh Smith about his band, Hotcake Hand Grenade —...
Working the Day Shift
I don’t mean this in a bad way, but Dead Vinyl’s existing catalog is a time capsule of sorts. Sonically speaking from a pair...
Doing Right
To Jake Paleschic, the wait was worth it.
Coming out Friday, the folk singer-songwriter’s new album has been “finished for about three years, sitting in...
Broke String Burnett’s Doppelganger
Brandon “Broke String” Burnett has been writing songs since he was 15, but it wasn’t until his early 20s when he really found his sound....
Deep Roots
When Brandi Waller-Pace left her hometown of Atlanta to study jazz at Howard University in 2002, she did not know that journey would lead...
Bright Lights/Dark Sounds
Don’t be confused by the sanguine, dance party-ish title of Laser Disco Wash, the second full-length by synthwave artist Annafell Lights. Despite recalling some...
JaeBoy
When you think about it, the old adage about making lemonade out of life’s unsolicited lemons is staggeringly myopic. What do you do when,...
