In 2015 Hop Along released my favorite album of that year, Painted Shut. The collection defied specific genre distinctions and relied on depth, a...

Back in 2014 Mimicking Birds released Eons - an album that quietly reveled in the beauty, ambiguity and expansiveness of the planet and universe ...

Another year, another Hopscotch is in the books; and somehow 2017 managed to exceed the lofty expectations I had leading into it. There were so ma...

Every September the Hopscotch Music Festival takes over downtown Raleigh, North Carolina to showcase a diverse range of local, national and intern...

In 2015 Julien Baker made waves with her stunning and confident debut Sprained Ankle - an album full of sparse, guitar driven arrangements with Ba...

To claim that aging is weird is not a particularly groundbreaking sentiment but that doesn't make it any less true. With her latest song, Tamara L...

Montclair, New Jersey's Pinegrove effortlessly blends elements of indie rock and folk to create music that sounds simultaneously familiar and o...

If you're familiar with Portland, Oregon band Typhoon then you're probably familiar with the story of frontman Kyle Morton. His writing focuses h...

On 2013's excellent Wheel, Laura Stevenson sang of modern anxieties, existential dread, the negative effects of climate change - feeling all too ...

Following the release of their stunning debut The Albatross back in 2013 - St. Louis band Foxing have been on tour seemingly non-stop, developin...

Twenty-two year old singer-songwriter Jake McMullen cites Ryan Adams, Bon Iver and James Vincent McMorrow as musical influences - and after listen...