Julian Talamantez Brolaski understands rhythm. As a poet, their grasp of sound, rhythm, and silence permeates the traditional country sounds of It’s Okay, Honey. Brolaski was a guest a few months ago on the Rainbow Rodeo podcast, but as the…
Jolie Holland is a powerful force on her recent album Haunted Mountain. As we learned in our interview, Holland is a deep thinker and her thirst for radical change comes through not just in her lyrics — but the music…
New York’s Soren Song has spent the past few years on a journey of self-discovery. With I’m, their newest release, we are graced with a song cycle of exploration and self-actualization. “Man the Wheel” characterizes this journey as one of…
“How much can I let myself be open? How many times until I slip away?” Anna Holmquist, in the most recent offering of their indie-folk project Ester, is a songwriter interested in the more complicated questions of life and love.…
Get ready to have your heart broken in the most intimate way possible. One for Jackie, the latest by Rett Madison, is a heart-wrenchingly gorgeous tribute to her late mother. It is an emotionally-charged look into her mother’s struggle with…
mostly myself again, the new EP from Izzy Heltai, finds the singer-songwriter paralyzed at the crossroads. Just as lockdown ended and Heltai was preparing to tour, he injured his foot and broke up with his girlfriend and found himself back…
Last time I spoke with Bryan Ruby was on the Batting Around podcast — the gayest baseball podcast on the Internet. (I linked to an Internet archive page but you can find the podcast anywhere you find your other favorites…
New York’s Brian Falduto makes an art out of pop country. As contributor Gion Davis wrote in issue 3 of our Rainbow Rodeo zine (coming soon to our web store!), Falduto’s primary artistic thrust is taking the mainstream country sound…
There’s no better time of year if you’re into gothicana. Iris Marlowe delivers that in a big way on Where the Devil Bid the Owl Goodbye. This cowboy country album evokes campfires, open plains, fiery sunsets, and the treachery that…
The last time I released an album of originals, I was still two kinds of closeted, so as you can see, I’ve really been making up for lost time on the new batch,” wrote Lauren O’Connell on Instagram, in anticipation…