Joel Evans, AKA Tiny Eyes, wanted to write a love song but didn’t want to use the same old mould. “I heard somewhere that almost all songs are written about the start or the end of relationships,” he said. “What…
When the Milk Carton Kids first emerged from Eagle Rock in 2011, it was from out of the ashes of two failed solo ‘careers’. Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale spent most of a decade attempting to find their footing amongst…
The Flaming Lips have never been a band to do anything halfway. They’ve released records encased with their own blood, and for Record Store Day 2018, they pressed albums with their Dragons & Yum Yums brand of Dogfish Head Ale…
At times, the internet can provide such a swell of mad-hat information at once that you just need to step away from the laptop, wipe off your sweat, and sit back with a well-tailored book for a while. At other…
Chicago singer-songwriter Max Subar intends to create folk music that appeals to his midwestern roots. Planting his feet firmly into the earth and looking hopefully towards the sky, Subar is capable of inhabiting a song with the sort of hearth-made…
The amount of artistic credit that has built up around the name of Lindsey Jordan, aka Snail Mail, has gotten so high that it is difficult to make an informed judgement about it. Almost every paper or digital ‘zine has…