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Bryan Ruby -- Found & Lost

Bryan Ruby -- Found & Lost

Bryan Ruby has been dropping hints of what to expect on his latest EP Found & Lost — heartbreak, but good-natured. Ruby is a sensitive songwriter with an earnest performance style and a voice that was born for ’90s country radio. The one problem with Found & Lost is that it’

INTERVIEW: Sarah King on Picking Up The Pieces From Her Cancer Diagnosis

INTERVIEW: Sarah King on Picking Up The Pieces From Her Cancer Diagnosis

Just when Sarah King though she was at the point she needed to be, well, it all went down. King release her album When it All Goes Down on March 29. Three days later, her doctor confirmed the worst: she had thyroid cancer, with tumors on her lymph nodes and

Rainbow Ruckus 7/23/24: Laura Jane Grace, Jett Holden, Keep for Cheap, and More!

Rainbow Ruckus 7/23/24: Laura Jane Grace, Jett Holden, Keep for Cheap, and More!

Every week, Rainbow Rodeo brings you the best new queer country music! Listen to this playlist on Spotify! Thanks to Elliott for making a parallel list on Apple Music! Listen to the parallel list on Tidal. Missed a week? TA Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured

Stephanie Lambring -- Hypocrite

Stephanie Lambring -- Hypocrite

Stephanie Lambring is the best songwriter you don’t know about. Lambring is an uncompromising lyricist, and she kneecaps us immediately with “Cover Girl,” a biting indictment of the beauty standards she was expected to upload when she first got to Nashville. It wasn’t until her stunning album Autonomy

PREMIERE: Edie McKenna Delivers a "Kick in the Shin"

Edie McKenna pulls no punches on the sunny pop hooks of “Kick in the Shin,” a spirited kiss-off to a toxic father. The Chicago-based singer-songwriter is probably best known for her project Modern Nun, but her upcoming EP For Edie is a solo affair that collects songs she wrote between

INTERVIEW: The Lower Aetna Unravel Mythology in the Pine Barrens

INTERVIEW: The Lower Aetna Unravel Mythology in the Pine Barrens

The Lower Aetna began as a lonely quarantine project by Dylan Gallimore. His previous band, the Philadelphia-based Honeyjar, had just taken an indefinite hiatus and Gallimore began to feverishly write — literally, since he was sick with COVID-19. After firing off a stadium rock-inspired album, Waiting for God to Turn on

Sadie Gustafson-Zook -- Where I Want to Be

Sadie Gustafson-Zook -- Where I Want to Be

Sadie Gustafson-Zook has an intriguingly off-kilter worldview on Where I Want to Be. This is an album for anyone who’s ever felt out of place — and could use the reassurance that they’re not the only one. Here, Gustafson-Zook demonstrates why she won the Kerrville Folk Festival’s 2022