country

Keen Garrity is the stage name of Knoxville, Tennessee native, Rebekah Burchfield, whose debut album Get Big dropped earlier this year. An ex-member of the prog rock outfit Wards of the Mayor, she’s now following in the footsteps of…

Kristina Stykos is an established name in the industry, with a reputation as a solid recording engineer, producer, and singer-songwriter. Her latest release, River of Light, was recorded in her very own Pepperbox Studio—an off-the-grid…

Jess Chizuk and Greg Zeis are a folk/Americana duo hailing from Buffalo, New York. Over the last eighteen months, they've been busy to say the least. Utilising a homemade RV, The Rightly So have been touring non-stop across America. Their…

Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz have finally returned with Ghosts to Ancestors. Anders, a singer-songwriter, has long been in partnership with collaborator O’Bitz, and this release follows their previous work on Of All These Things. The…

Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift mid-speech at the 2009 VMA’s is one of the most iconic cultural moments of the 21st century thus far. This may appear to some as a complete over exaggeration yet there’s so much more to this…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where we pick a theme and, er, make a playlist around it. Sometimes you might get an essay, other times you might get just one sentence as a precursor to the laser-focused audio delights that await below. Joshua…

Vision Fortune Country Music The second record from Vision Fortune is certainly one of the more ‘out there’ records of the year so far. Recorded in a minimalist atmosphere in an Italian villa (with little more than a few DVDs to…

A few years back, the country crooner Randy Travis was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Good ole Randy Travis. He was reported by some people who saw him stroll into a local store naked and demand cigarettes. He then…