Ordinary Van / Ordinary Van
Listening to Ordinary Van’s first, self-titled new record is both a great experience and a bittersweet one. Lead singer and main songwriter Paul Bates,...
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Alicia Pyle Quartet / Ground Level
We all know that the word “serendipity” (which happens to be the title of the first track of the new album from the Alicia Pyle Quartet) refers to a...
Red Arrow / Red Arrow
Red Arrow don’t like to be pigeonholed in terms of the genre of music they play, so I’m not going to do so. But I’m also not going to resort to laying...
Owen Yonce
Located a little north of Indianapolis is Carmel. It’s a nice enough town to pass through on your way to Indy. There’s shops and things and a decent...
Ramidus / Ramidus
If you blink you’ll miss it, goes the old joke about small towns. The same could be said about Ramidus, a metal band from the small(er) city of Goshen,...
Old and Dirty
If Old and Dirty were any less dedicated, they probably would have called it quits when the once five-piece band devolved to a duo less than a year...
Trichotomous Hippopotamus
You can imagine the stories that might surround something called a Trichotomous Hippopotamus. “Archaeologists in Uganda recently unearthed the bones...
Dixon & McRae / Cavalier
If no one had come up with the genre-binding concept of Americana, we’d be hard pressed to argue that artists like Kacey Musgraves and the Decembrists...
Sunny Taylor / Map to the Fire
Map to the Fire is Sunny Taylor’s first full-length album of new music since 2007’s Lock the Door and Leave, and it’s only her fourth full-length album...
Grey Gordon
Grey Gordon is a busy man. He’s a manager at a local tattoo shop which in and of itself is a full time job. In addition to that, he has a solo singer/songwriter...