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I first heard Hattie Cooke from her excellent imagined soundtrack The Sleepers(Spun Out Of Control). It stood apart from so many in that genre in that it was as much this loose, emotion-driven dance album as it was world building. Though, it very much built a world to live in and experience at both an […]
Read More “To Finally Be Born”: Hattie Cooke Talks Bliss Land, Songwriting, The FutureOn Sufjan Stevens follow-up to 2015s ornate and personal Carrie & Lowell, the singer-songwriter returns to his extended electronic compositions. At one hour and twenty minutes The Ascension can feel dense and at times hard to get all the way thru in one sitting, but with patience comes the rewards. Much like Stevens 2010 opus […]
Read More Sufjan Stevens : The AscensionBlake Mills is the go-to producer and musical shaman at the moment, but he’s so much more than that. His 2014 record Heigh Ho proved as much, giving us sardonic and breezy songs about life and messing up and falling in love and disappointing those around us. It brought to mind folks like Randy Newman, […]
Read More Blake Mills : Mutable SetAndy Shauf is the kind of songwriter that puts you into his world with just the strum of his guitar or a melodic turn of phrase. He pulls from the magical well of classic 70s-era songwriters like Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Cat Stevens, but with the sonic wizardry of Jon Brion. There’s a gentle […]
Read More Andy Shauf : The Neon SkylineSinger/songwriter Dan Smyth is a music machine. Not only does he lend his guitar and vocal skills to Fort Wayne’s The Legendary Trainhoppers, but Smyth is a veritable human jukebox covering over 50 years of pop and rock&roll music in local clubs. Seriously, the list of songs this man covers is staggering, and wholly impressive. […]
Read More Dan Smyth : I Can’t WaitIt took me a long time to find an “in” with Tim Heidecker. In-particular, the comedy he created with Eric Warheim. Watching Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job on Adult Swim was both absolute hilarity and mild-to-extreme unease. Their comedy was this weird mix of 80s cable access video effects and mild hallucinatory fever […]
Read More Tim Heidecker : What The Brokenhearted Do…Virgin Pool is the name musician/songwriter Christine Aprile goes by when writing spectral, acoustic pop songs. There’s something very majestic, spiritual even, about the songs she writes. There’s a mixture of both the synthetic and the organic in her work that makes for quite the engaging listen. Artists as diverse as Colleen, Annie Clark, Wye […]
Read More Holodeck Records Readies Virgin Pool Debut EP ‘Endless Evenings’; Listen To “Keeping Still”My good friend and fellow music writer DM Jones once said of Kevin Hambrick, “Psychedelic rockers, guitar-pop nuggets and poignant acoustic numbers coexist easily in Hambrick’s world.” No truer statement could be made of the musical world of Kevin Hambrick. He’s been a Fort Wayne music staple for the better part of the 21st century, […]
Read More Kevin Hambrick : Clitter and the ClatterRyan Kerr makes music that seems to constantly evolve as it’s in the process of playing. It moves and slinks effortlessly like the best kind of narrative. He definitely falls in the singer/songwriter category, yet he travels among the DIY punk scene like an elder statesmen. That’s to say he’s a well respected man, among […]
Read More Ryan Kerr : Live WellIt’s a great feeling when you come across an artist that comes from a truly honest place. That place where there’s nowhere to hide and conceal the truth of creativity. There’s no put-ons or gimmicky song and dance. The art you see is the art you get. Singer/songwriter Ryan Kerr is one such artist. Living […]
Read More Living Well : The Story Songs of Ryan Kerr
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