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Wild Wayne Delivers
File this recommendation under “You should’ve been there,” but Wayne Floyd really brought the house down at his show on Friday night, the closer of...
Trying to Ride Out the Storm
We cannot wait until the day comes when we can write about something without having to acknowledge the context of the pandemic’s unprecedented effects...
Flickerstick Redux
For all you young guns, or young’uns, out there who think you’re hot shit now, you might do well to, first, check yourself and,...
A Most Efficient EP
Although it’s a certainty that some brownline-framed-glasses-sporting internet-bullying parvenu — armed with an underground music XP dwarfing that of the average mortal local music...
Shows of the Year
There’s no telling what the answer might have been when posed to the public writ large (getting pedicures?), but to us as insular, daylight-fearing...
Big Heaven’s “Pearls” Comes Alive
Big Heaven, the pop-rock project of singer-guitarist Amanda Hand, is dropping a little stocking stuffer of a track on Christmas Eve, releasing a re-recorded...
Records of the Year
It goes without saying that, so far, the “roaring” in this century’s version of the Roaring ’20s seems to be in reference to the...
New Country Tracks from Grady Spencer, Bubba Bellin for Your Earholes
Give a hand to Grady Spencer. He’s a songwriter and a frontman who works in a genre — country music — that tends to...
Trauma Ray of Hope
I think it was in June or July when Trauma Ray frontman Uriel Avila and his girlfriend dropped by the Boiled Owl Tavern for...
Ryan Hamilton’s 1221
A year and a half ago, Ryan Hamilton — along with his backing band, the U.K.-based Harlequin Ghosts — had achieved a newfound level...



















