Five years can be a lifetime. Especially when you front a band like Phosphorescent. Yet for Matt Houck it went by in the blink of an eye. Along the way he got married, moved from New York to Nashville, had…
Album | Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie
Album | JP Harris – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing
Joshua Pless Harris seems to be the essence of a Kris Kristofferson song: “walking contradiction, partly truth, partly fiction.” Yet Harris has lived enough in 35 years for three men, leaving home at 14, hopping trains, working as a sheet…
Album | Songs For Walter – An Endless Summer Daze
Songs For Walter was originally the name Laurie Hulme gave to a collection of tracks about his grandfather, songs that garnered a great deal of praise. He also received his share of raves from many of the Radio 6 Music…
Interview | FFS 5 with Ben Fisher
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has rarely been addressed in American music. But on Ben Fisher’s latest release, the Damien Jurado-produced Does the Land Remember Me?, the Seattle-based folk artist—who spent three years living in Israel—dives headfirst into an entire concept album on…
Album | Chloe Kimes – Apothecary
When your humble writer first came across Chloe Kimes, it was when she was singing three-parts in one of the first iterations of Awesome Distraction. Fast forward another four or five years from there and the Michigan-slash-Nashville artist has grown…
Album | Patrick Grant – FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music
As lengthy a title as it may be, Patrick Grant’s FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music lives up to it in a multifarious blend of ways. First and foremost, the nine tracks of which the album is comprised are, indeed, strange,…