LISTEN: Megan Keely, ‘Love Will Find You’

Artist: Megan Keely
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Song: “Love Will Find You”
Album: Bloom
Release Date: May 25, 2018

In Her Words: “‘Love Will Find You’ was the first song I wrote off the Bloom song cycle. It was a rainy day in August 2016 and I was on my way home from a magical seaside wedding on the Oregon coast. I was alone in the airport cafe, scribbling in my notebook, basking in the beautiful afterglow and digesting something that the bride’s parents had said to me on my way out. They had asked me for updates on my love life, and with no good news to share, I muttered, “I’ll find love some day.” They looked me in the eye and said, “No, Megan, love will find you.” The next day, the song spilled out of me in an unconscious effort to remind myself once and for all that the aloneness I felt was part of a long and crucial process that I needed in order to grow into the person I would become. Flying solo to a wedding was the very step I needed in order to rediscover and strengthen the needle of my own emotional and moral compass — the internal guide that would eventually lead me to the true, open-hearted, laughter-filled love I wanted.” – Megan Keely


Photo credit: Stephanie Dandan

LISTEN: Kady Z, ‘I Curse the Day’

Artist: Kady Z
Hometown: New York, NY
Song: “I Curse the Day”
Album: Daddy Issues
Release Date: February 2018
Label: Fraknwitch Records

In Their Words: “My dad once told me, as a child, ‘Don’t hate.’ But he never said I wasn’t allowed to curse the day someone was born. And never could have imagined that when I did, I would be cursing him.” — Kady Z


Photo credit: Ben Cope

LISTEN: Letitia VanSant, ‘I Know Just Where I’m Bound’

Artist: Letitia VanSant
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Song: “I Know Just Where I’m Bound”
Album: Gut It to the Studs
Release Date: February 2, 2018

In Their Words: “When we think of the leaders of the past who helped bring more justice to the world, we tend to think of them as sure-footed, confident visionaries. But hindsight is 20/20 and, in the moment, many of them felt a great deal of doubt about what to do and whether it would work.

For instance, John Woolman, an early abolitionist who asked people to free those they had enslaved, was doing something so against the grain of the way the economy worked at the time that he couldn’t really see the way forward. If any of us want to change the way things work, we’ll have to contend with that uncertainty and proceed with faith in the face of the obstacles we’ll inevitably encounter.” — Letitia VanSant


Photo credit: Shervin Lainez

LISTEN: Faustina Masigat, ‘One Day’

Artist: Faustina Masigat
Hometown: Portland, OR
Song: “One Day”
Album: Faustina Masigat
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Label: Mama Bird Recording Co.

In Their Words: “I lost a lot of people and places I loved in the years leading up to recording this album. I wrote ‘One Day’ about the grief process — the feeling that one’s grief can seem endless and cyclical, even timeless.” — Faustina Masigat

Photo credit: Vincent Bancheri

LISTEN: Eric Saint Nicholas, ‘3:45’

Artist: Eric Saint Nicholas
Hometown: Corona Del Mar, CA
Song: “3:45”
Album: American Heartbreak Radio
Release Date: February 10, 2017

In Their Words: “’3:45′ is about late nights in New York City and dating the wrong person at the right time. Sometimes you roll with things that are no good for you just to see how it feels, to live a little. Maybe ‘3:45’ is doing a little bad so next time you know better.” — Eric Saint Nicholas


Photo credit: Erick Anderson