There are songs that bring tears to your eyes. Sad songs. Songs about lost love and missed opportunity. Then there are songs that make you cry openly. Songs about death […]

On paper When Fish Ride Bicycles is the proper debut full length from the Chicago- and Detroit-based duo The Cool Kids. This only because, when their first release came out, […]

Imagine driving down a less-traveled road in a vintage car, windows down, no particular destination or deadline or agenda to worry about. You see the details that you’d been too […]

I had barely settled into my chair on the patio of the Venice Restaurant when Paul New Stewart asked me if I had heard of a comedian from the 1950s […]

There are a few essential elements in country music these days, and if you want to be successful as a country musician you have to be able to serve ’em […]

To theology majors the name Simon Peter brings to mind the fisherman disciple who cut off the ear of a high priest’s servant and denied Christ three times before the […]

Don’t let the cover art for Fort Wayne-based Krimsha’s debut full-length album, Make Believe, fool you. Despite the footprints-in-the-sand cover and vaguely wispy title, the music contained within dwells more […]

Right about now I’m wondering what the glue is that holds a band together? Music is so personal, and when you spend night after night trying to take five different […]