Erin Lyndal Martin

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Erin Lyndal Martin is a creative writer, music journalist, and visual artist. Her music journalism has appeared in bandcamp, Salon, No Depression, and more. Her web presence is at http://www.erinlyndalmartin.com

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On New EP, Samantha Crain Delivers An Epilogue About Resilience

In 2020, Choctaw singer-songwriter Samantha Crain released A Small Death, a lush, indie folk album about surviving trauma and chronic pain. That album found both critical acclaim and a huge base of fans who fell in love with Crain’s elegant paean to survival. Now, the four-song I Guess We Live Here...

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Katy Kirby Keeps the Faith on Debut LP Cool Dry Place

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Lia Ices is Honestly Happy on the Mountain

She took a break from recording and touring, but she hardly lay fallow. Instead, she got...

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Fearlessly Multi-faceted Nadine Shah Leaves No Story Untold on Kitchen Sink

On her latest single “Trad,” Nadine Shah sings “Shave my legs/Freeze my eggs/Will you want me when I am old?” and it’s clear that Shah’s latest project tackles expectations put upon women and how women internalize that pressure. While writing her 2020 album Kitchen Sink, Shah sat down with close...

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Lauryn Peacock Muses on Memory with First Single in Five Years, "Coming Over Me Again"

“I loved digging into memory. It wasn't intentional; memory just happened,” says Nashville-based singer-songwriter Lauryn Peacock of her time in quarantine. Memory just happened. Many of us are finding that truer than ever in this stressful time that leaves us alone with our thoughts much more than...

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Juanita Stein Takes Snapshot of Legacy and Loss

I would scream at my dad to turn his music off,” Juanita Stein recalls. Stein, who formerly fronted Howling Bells, came of age in Australia where she learned music from her father Peter...

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Rituals of Mine Heals Through Reinvention with Hype Nostalgia LP

When musician Terra Lopez was 11 years old, she told her father she wanted to reinvent herself every day. Having lost her father as well as her best friend in 2015 and 2016, respectively, Lopez has been healing through reinvention. Formerly in a project named Sister Crayon, she’s chosen the new...

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Holly Bowling Channels the Dead Across America

But if anyone was going to do it, it’s San Francisco-based Holly Bowling. Bowling, who started playing piano at age five, remembers a childhood steeped...

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Kate Bollinger Revisits Timeless Songs About Growing Up on A Word Becomes a Sound EP

” This movie, jam-packed with playful decadence, is a favorite of Charlottesville, VA singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger; having recently...

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ONLY NOISEWhat I Learned From Bad Covers of “Hallelujah”

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Erin Lyndal Martin takes comfort in unexpected covers. “Hallelujah” is pretty much a perfect song. Appearing on his 1984 LP Various Positions, it took Leonard Cohen...

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Jenny Owen Youngs' Transmitter Failure Still Provides Inspiration a Decade Later

Jenny Owen Youngs photo by Tucker Leary. It was the spring 2009, and I had a leisurely day off, getting ice cream and going to see a tribute event to the Brothers Quay. I rode the subway back to Davis Square, checked my voicemail, and panicked. I knew I was interviewing Jenny Owen Youngs for Venus...

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ONLY NOISEPlaylist for a Schoolgirl Crush

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Erin Lyndal Martin shares a selection of songs that bring back the rush of a schoolgirl crush. No matter how old you get, there’s something that stays dreamy about...

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