“Fenceline” focuses on the impulse humans have had across generations and societies, to build walls in an effort to keep unwanted people out. Tivel found herself wondering: What is at the core of this need to construct barriers between ourselves and others?
Twisted Pine's Rachel Sumner shares her lead single, "Bred In the Bone," from her upcoming solo EP, Anything Worth Doing.
Throughout their eponymous debut, Hush Kids weave a gorgeous melodic web with varying threads of toughness and texture. On the sparsely populated “Goodbye Rain,” they apply their delicately dulcet tones with a light touch that recalls one of 2017's most magical and memorable tracks, “Forces of Decay” by Rogue + Jaye. It's like the spoonful of musical sugar that helps the medicine of heartache go down.
Another master of musical melancholy is, undeniably, Lucy Wainwright Roche. On her new album, Little Beast, she churns out lyrical impossibilities time and again, each conveying so much with so little.
Hear "Giving Up" by the Edinburgh, Scotland duo, The Jellyman's Daughter, from their new album, Dead Reckoning.
Listen to the premiere of “Leaf by Niggle," by Mile Twelve mandolinist David Benedict - the first single from his upcoming solo release, The Golden Angle, due on October 26th.
Listen to the premiere of "Fields of Brooklyn," the gorgeous instrumental medley from Kittel & Co.'s upcoming release, Whorls, out June 29th on Compass Records.
Listen to the premiere of "Long Chain Charlie and Moundsville" from The Slocan Ramblers upcoming release, Queen City Jubilee.
Listen to the premiere of "Solitary Singer," the lead single to Eliza Gilkyson's highly anticipated new album, SECULARIA, due out July 13 via Red House Records.
Jeffrey Foucault’s twang wraps around lyrics that dissect how omnipresent the news is in our world these days. With the media narrative telling us about darkness and division, the song insists that people in the real world continue to be kind and persistent, even as Foucault does his artist duty of trying to make sense of it all.
