Will Dailey – The Story of Golden Walker
For singer-songwriter and Boston native Will Dailey, inspiration can be found in the most mundane of experiences — or a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with a sculptor in a tiny village in France. “All the gold is being taken from our world,” the sculptor told Dailey after hearing his performance. “They take it all to use in […]
Future Thieves – The Story of “Dark Spin”
Sometimes you just want to try something new. Get away from everything you know, everything that’s safe, and see what comes out of it—see who you become when you’re left to be your most outrageous, risky, creative self. That’s what Future Thieves does whenever the alternative rock band comes together to make music. They challenge […]
Martha Hill – The Story Of “Spiders”
Everyone has nightmares. Everyone has those nights where they lie awake staring at the ceiling, trying as hard as they can not to fall asleep. Everyone has those moments where the house is so quiet and the room is so dark, they can’t be completely sure they’re awake at all. Everyone has the corners of […]
Victors – The Story Of “Slow Down”
You remember high-school right? The first real party, the first real relationship, the first real break-up. The summer that seemed to stretch on forever, the fights that seemed world-ending with people whose names you no longer remember, the parties that were so fun at the time but now you try hard to forget. No matter […]
Nimbus Cloud – The Story of “If Things Were Different”
Don’t you ever wish things were different? One of my personal hangups in life is a stupid amount of worry over whether people like me. Like, I’ll have a routine interaction, and then spend way too much energy over-analyzing it to find out if the thing I said sounded weird to the other person. If […]
Corey Kilgannon – The Story of “Soft Gentle Brilliant II”
Corey Kilgannon showed up in my Spotify Discover Weekly a couple of years ago with the beautiful, troubled poetry of “The Rhine.” I’m really glad he did. Because I (and probably you, too) need more good poetry in my life. Like most good poets, Corey has the gift of articulating things in ways that simultaneously […]
The War and Treaty – The Story of Healing Tide
Following the highly anticipated release of Healing Tide, the lead single and title track from The War and Treaty’s first full length LP, produced by Nashville legend Buddy Miller, I had the chance to sit down and talk with Tanya and Michael Trotter, Jr. about life on the road, their philosophy on love and hope […]
Caity Krone – The Story of “Record About You”
When it comes to powerful female songwriters, there are some names that come around again and again. Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell, Carole King – these are the women whose voices and songs have endured for decades, inspiring girls across the world for generations to pick up a guitar or sit down at the piano. Caity […]
Henriette Linja – The Story Of “In The Middle Of The Night”
Other music lovers may disagree but, for me, the one thing at the heart of all great songwriting is honesty. Whether you’re writing an emotional ballad about a past relationship, or a sprawling pop-opera about fictional characters in a fictional world, all songwriting is at least a little bit autobiographical. It can’t help but be. […]
The Story of “The Life and Death of Mary Read”
You just can’t beat a concept album. Whether it’s the story of one man trying to find out who stole the moon, like in the Small Faces’ classic Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, or an exploration of disenfranchised youth like Green Day’s American Idiot, the genre has allowed artists to push boundaries ever since Frank Sinatra […]
