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BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE at the Grammy Museum
As The Grammy Museum closes in on its 10th Anniversary, it’s a prime time not only to celebrate their powerful and provocative exhibits...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 16, 2018


BROWN KID, Rusty Strings
If you can embrace the wildly cool, culturally mindbending geographic concept of a Peruvian born singer striking ground in Alabama,...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 14, 2018


BEN MILLBURN, Sunglass Moustache
This journalist has always been a champion of indie artists and bands who take risks, and use the era of DIY music making to create works...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 12, 2018


AJ JANSEN, Bourbon & Roses
Five releases into her extraordinary career, New England based indie singer-songwriter AJ Jansen gives us a bold, brash and...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 26, 2018

BROTHER REVEREND, The Tables Turn Too Often
Like a lot of young bands trying to make their mark, the Atlanta conceived, NYC executed band Brother Reverend – founded by Keith Xenos...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 20, 2018

LELAND AND THE SILVER WELLS
If it’s possible to create the musical equivalent of a literary masterpiece, or one deserving of this sort of high minded consideration,...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 20, 2018


MIA AND JONAH, Spin As One
The question that hits me about midway through Spin as One, the latest exercise in transcendent Americana folk-rock by the beautifully...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 19, 2018


J.C. HOPKINS, It's a Sad and Beautiful World
When it comes to describing songs and music, the term “timeless” is sometimes bandied about a little too liberally – but every so often,...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 12, 2018


MARK ROGERS, Qualifiers
Sometimes true love, or in Mark Rogers’ case, reconnecting after decades with a long departed sweetheart, is all it takes to refuel the...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 3, 2018


AMILIA K SPICER, Wow and Flutter
Listening intently – okay, hanging on each successive inviting syllable – to folk, country and Americana influenced singer/songwriter...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 30, 2018

R.W. Roldan, "Falling Star"
If a raw, rootsy Americana-influenced singer/songwriter like Chris Stapleton can become a multi-platinum country artist, there’s no...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 11, 2018
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