Louis Picasso & The Gallery Exhibit ‘The Burning Canvas’ (Live Album)
October 23, 2020Louis Picasso and The Gallery have made a grand gesture with their newly released live album. Several gestures, really. First and foremost, the Ypsi-based alternative-rap ensemble wanted to give something to their fans. They wanted to give something to music-lovers everywhere, truth be told. Because it’s been a rough year, and we need something that’s
The Hard Road and the Lessons Learned: Shawn Butzin’s Adventures Continue
October 9, 2020New single, Indigo Sky, is the first of a series of new music. Shawn Butzin reveres songwriting as a kind of expedition, and fulfillment is the arrival. In this case, the finished song. Fittingly, a recent release was titled Adventures; also, several of the songs on his debut album came to fruition while he was
The Potential of Heavy Color’s Music to Heal & to Manifest Real Change
September 23, 2020Heavy Color are a Toledo-based duo of avant-psychedelia composers. They talk a little bit about their work on the Rights of Nature documentary and using music to heal.
Matthew Dear Remixes a Mustang on New Single
September 17, 2020World-renowned Ann Arbor-based electronic music producer/songwriter Matthew Dear has created a new single that samples the futuristic sounds of the new Mustang Mach-E!
Album Review: Monte Pride’s ‘Even in Absence’
August 24, 2020I keep to a couple of my own theories about folk music, and Lansing-based singer/songwriter Monte Pride is subtly, and even gracefully, confirming them on his new album, Even In Absence. If we distilled our motivation for listening to music in terms of the rewards that a finely-crafted song can provide for its listener, it
Album Review: Ethan Daniel Davidson’s ‘Come Down Lonesome’
August 19, 2020Ethan Daniel Davidson is a Detroit-based troubadour who conjures evocative Americana-folk dreamscapes. His latest album is available August 21 via Blue Arrow Records