Artist: JEMS Hometown: Los Angeles, California Latest Album: Back Around Personal nicknames (or rejected band names): Wild Valley Dream Weavers, lots of others! Which artist has influenced you the most – and how? I grew up with Joni Mitchell. For every season of life, her music feels like the soundtrack. I find myself returning to…
At 26, the prodigy phase of AJ Lee’s music career has passed. It might take a little more time for the tendency to confuse her with a professional wrestler using the same name to fade away. “I think I could take her!” Lee — the singing one — gamely pronounces at the conclusion of an…
Great Aunt is an Australian folk duo composed of Megan Bird and Chelsea Allen. For a small outfit, they showcase a wide array of instruments – including mandolin, resonator guitar, acoustic guitar, double bass, percussive instruments, and vocals – with detailed harmonic arrangements. Their music is groovy, with a foot-stomping feel as the base underlying…
At whatever level you may be plugged into the online bluegrass scene, you have surely heard, seen, or scrolled into content by Bronwyn Keith-Hynes and Brenna MacMillan. These two young, talented pickers are part of a vibrant and blossoming community of traditional musicians and folk artists that includes folks like Cristina Vane, Victor Furtado, Hilary…
“Nobody tells it like it is,” Anna Tivel sings on “Disposable Camera,” the first single from her new album, Living Thing. The song radiates with the joy and pain of reality, climaxing with the lines: That big black train is rolling And that deep down scream is growing A hurricane come howling A shot heard…
