The Proper Way: In February, we were part of the house band for Sammy Brue’s Justin Townes Earle tribute show at The State Room, and got to play alongside—and spend some quality time with—some of our ...

I admit, with lowered head, that I am only a recent inductee to local music. I was one of those people who would wait for the BIG NAME to come to town, perform at the BIG VENUE, and willing to pay BIG ...

Although a longtime sentiment, Joni Mitchell phrased it well, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Ironic how these lyrics are actually lines in one of the ...

The past year was a fantastic one for local music—so much so that trying to select only 10 albums for this list was a difficult task indeed. The scene is full of trailblazers who deserve to have their ...

Album covers clockwise from top left: Brynn's "Impossible Shoes" (Courtesy Aidan La Poche); Babe, Wait's "debut" (Courtesy Casey Wait); Sanyé's "FOR THE WAIT II" (Courtesy Josh Carter); Cape Crush's ...