A very old saying goes that no one saves us but ourselves. Recognizing and breaking free from the patterns impeding our forward progress can be transformative just ask Bully’s Alicia Bognanno. Indeed, the third Bully album, SUGAREGG, may not ever have come to fruition had Bognanno not navigated every kind …
Pom Pom Squad is an indie rock/grunge band from Brooklyn, New York. Begun in 2015 as a solo project of frontwoman Mia Berrin, Pom Pom Squad evolved into a four-piece band consisting of Berrin, bassist Mari Alé Figeman, drummer Shelby Keller, and guitarist Alex Mercuri.
A slice of tremolo-heavy classic rock filtered through the lens of the gunslinging American West, REMO DRIVE’s third LP, A PORTRAIT OF AN UGLY MAN, is in many ways a return to form for the Minnesota-based indie-rock duo. The album, with its acrobatic guitar work, deeply self-referential lyrics and off-the-walls …
Maintaining urgency, authenticity and integrity has never been an issue for New York City’s hardest, and hardest working band, MADBALL. Twenty-five years along as a recording and touring entity, MB brings forth its ninth aural chapter, »For The Cause«; a signature collection of lionhearted, groove-laden, street-level New York Hardcore as …
Back home in San Diego, California, singer-songwriter Jack Taylor spent his weekends doing gigs at the local farmers’ market and uploading covers and original songs onto his YouTube channel. With musical influences like Mariah Carey, Tori Kelly, Emeli Sandé, and Astrid S, he weaves his love for R&B and soul …
“I am terrified of spiders,” says Shannon Shaw. “My mom always told me that they’re drawn to me. Like, they would drop down and dangle in my face as a baby, or they’d get in my bed.” But the powerhouse singer-bassist of retro-rock band Shannon & The Clams had bigger …
I. “This is a photograph.” The story begins with Kevin Morby, absentmindedly flipping through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City. Anything to take his mind off the events of earlier that day. Just hours before, at a family dinner, his …
Jackie Hayes (born August 17, 1999) is a Waukegan-raised, Chicago-based musician detangling the tremors of her life to articulate the perils of young adulthood. Her first musical experiences happened in the church worship band, where her piano skills were hailed as a gift from God. There’s an irony to the …
“Nothing ever really disappears,” Cassandra Jenkins says. “It just changes shape.” Over the past few years, she’s seen relationships altered, travelled three continents, wandered through museums and parks, and recorded free-associative guided tours of her New York haunts. Her observations capture the humanity and nature around her, as well as …
“The Gathering series is all about building community,” says Carbon Leaf frontman Barry Privett. “It’s a call to look inwards and find what matters, an invitation to reach out and embrace the gifts of human connection.” That’s no mean feat given the deep divisions that have defined much of the …
