#acoustic

TRACK REVIEWRosie Carney "Awake Me"

“My whole life just seemed like a cloud of fog,” Rosie Carney states frankly on her website, sharing explicit details about the pain she's experienced: bullying, sexual assaults, an eating disorder, being dropped from a major label at the age of seventeen. Now twenty, it’s no wonder Carney, who...

Emily Daly

TRACK OF THE WEEKHeat Thunder "Wind Whips the Veil"

Singer/songwriter Joe Montone, under the moniker Heat Thunder, is serving up tasty folk tracks, the latest of which comes in the form of "Wind Whips the Veil."

Nicole Ortiz

LIVE REVIEWBill Callahan @ Baby's All Right

This is the closest we will ever get to Bill Callahan’s living room, or…porch.

Madison Bloom

ALBUM REVIEWPorcelain Raft "Half Awake EP"

Mauro Remiddi has had quite a life. The Italian born singer/songwriter once joined a Berlin circus at age 21, playing percussion, accordion, and violin to accompany the acts. He’s visited North Korea as an Italian musical ambassador and shaken hands with Kim Jong-un. Recently, a new adventure...

Emily Daly

TRACK REVIEWDMA's "So We Know"

When DMA's signed to Australian indie label I OH YOU this February, the Newtown trio was so freshly minted that they hadn't even played a show yet. That isn't to say they were totally green--all three members (Tommy O', Matt Mason, and Johnny Took) had gigged extensively with previous bands--and...

Carena Liptak

FLASHBACK FRIDAYKaren Dalton

Karen Dalton's mystique, largely a product of her personal misfortunate, makes her an easy candidate for legend: it's fun to imagine her, half Irish, half Cherokee, in a wooly, bohemian large-pocketed coat, Dalton had thick dark bangs and two missing bottom teeth knocked out when she got between...

Carena Liptak