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Today Wila Frank shares “Tonight,” the latest single from her upcoming album Black Cloud, an album of longing, heartache, revenge (in the form of living well). Her lyrics cut to the bone, production is sparkling, and her voice is otherwordly. At first listen I thought of Fiona Apple, in terms of emotional depth and wisdom beyond her years. Tonight’ is about recognizing your own pain in someone else. As humans,…

Paradise of Bachelors is reissuing Roxy Gordon’s 1988 album Crazy Horse Never Died on May 12th. Regrettably, I’d never heard of the late Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, artist, activist, and musician Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy) who passed in 2000, but reading about his lifelong accomplishments, plus the fact that Townes and Terry Allen loved him, had me intrigued. Gordon’s sound is John Prine meets John Trudell, with an…

My ambient queen of LA cynthia bernard, aka marine eyes, is celebrating the 2-year anniversary of her debut solo release, idyll. idyll is a pivotal album for me – right when I was getting into ambient music, cynthia’s music pushed me over the edge. I’ve compared her sounds to enya-like as far as scope of soothing and ethereality. In reality, the music is gentle, comforting, heavenly. Using field recordings, her…

This morning, the consistently solid and beautifully blossoming Ruination Record Co. announced Solo Guitar Improvisations , a collection of instrumental experiments by Lilah Larson (Cassandra Jenkins, Thao). Any announcement of solo guitar instrumentals is always good news here, and Lilah’s incredible work does not disappoint. Dive in now with the first track, “i” – which I interestingly read as the article at first, rather than the roman numeral. The collection…

Better late than never, we’re sharing Jeffrey Silverstein’s new single from the upcoming Western Sky Music, out 5.12.23 on Arrowhawk Records. Jeffrey ceases to shy away from twang with the new record, both in nomenclature and in sound. The new single has Barry Walker Jr. at his Sneakiest Petiest, and Silverstein at his Bermaniest. Unsurprisingly, its awesome. Jeffrey gets better and better with each release and his songs are taking…

Nashville Ambient Ensemble’s debut release Cerulean in 2021 was pivotal in its collaborative, compositional nature. Headed by the visionary Michael Hix, the ensemble featuring Deli Paloma-Sisk (vocals), Jack Silverman (guitar), Kim Rueger (piano), and Luke Schneider (pedal steel), with the addition of violinist Alicia Enstrom, returned to score Nashville’s Frist Museum’s exhibit Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. NAE’s music moves you immediately, with…