In 2015 Hop Along released my favorite album of that year, Painted Shut. The collection defied specific genre distinctions and relied on depth, a...
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Back in 2014 Mimicking Birds released Eons - an album that quietly reveled in the beauty, ambiguity and expansiveness of the planet and universe ...
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Another year, another Hopscotch is in the books; and somehow 2017 managed to exceed the lofty expectations I had leading into it. There were so ma...
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Every September the Hopscotch Music Festival takes over downtown Raleigh, North Carolina to showcase a diverse range of local, national and intern...
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In 2015 Julien Baker made waves with her stunning and confident debut Sprained Ankle - an album full of sparse, guitar driven arrangements with Ba...
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To claim that aging is weird is not a particularly groundbreaking sentiment but that doesn't make it any less true. With her latest song, Tamara L...
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Montclair, New Jersey's Pinegrove effortlessly blends elements of indie rock and folk to create music that sounds simultaneously familiar and o...
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If you're familiar with Portland, Oregon band Typhoon then you're probably familiar with the story of frontman Kyle Morton. His writing focuses h...
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On 2013's excellent Wheel, Laura Stevenson sang of modern anxieties, existential dread, the negative effects of climate change - feeling all too ...
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Following the release of their stunning debut The Albatross back in 2013 - St. Louis band Foxing have been on tour seemingly non-stop, developin...
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Twenty-two year old singer-songwriter Jake McMullen cites Ryan Adams, Bon Iver and James Vincent McMorrow as musical influences - and after listen...