Hello friends! For those who have been asking for years - my indie album SURFACES is now on Spotify and all other major streaming services!! Originally recorded in 1988, this album was a collection of some of the songs I had written since 1984. I pretty much locked...
2021 marks the 35th anniversary of Tamarack Camp Song. Howie announced to the camp that I was writing the new camp song. Which was cool. Except that it was the first time I was hearing about it too.
Fellow lovers of the singer/songwriter genre, I have know about since Lori McKenna her first record. Had to drive into the city and back today, so I listened to her new one. I think I cried the entire time. An altogether joyous and painful look at how aging changes...
Forget the fact that 2112 was the first album I purchased (8 years old) or that I saw Rush no less than 35 times in the last 40 years. Neil Peart taught me how to think. I learned about individuality from 2112, being true to yourself from Cinderella Man, the precious...
Music is my milestone. It has always been this way. My rough-hewn road through this existence is very clearly marked by the music that changed and guided me. Not always straight – not always smooth – but guided nonetheless. You would see many well-worn faces there on...
Regardless of the outcome, one thing is inarguable: Melissa McClelland is a very rare commodity in music – profoundly talented, whip-smart, and unswervingly committed to her art – in no particular order.
Listening to Chicago-based singer/songwriter Alice Peacock, and speaking with the artist, you quickly become privy to a strong woman who is wistfully comfortable with her past and passionately hopeful about her future.
Forget the sophomore curse. If anything, Mad Season is just good rock ‘n roll complete with great hooks and honest emotion.
“Hyperdramatic” is a passionate foray into the mind of a young woman in flux. From the eerie throb of lead track ‘Maybe It’s You’ to the closing lament of ‘Maybe A Son’, listeners are immersed in the artist’s soul – and all the joy, desperation and hope that encompasses.
