Lara Supan

by Lara Supan “It starts with an idea for me, about something that I want to communicate,” Blanton muses while she hangs in her Chicago hotel room. “I feel like I usually start with the point and work backwards.” Carsie Blanton has been in what she describes as “American Pop” Read More

Peter Matthew Bauer Liberation! Reviewed by: Lara Supan   Liberation! is best experienced with the liner notes read in tandem with listening to the songs, because this is an album that screams for an explanation. In quite an intriguing way, the disjunct styles and complex Read More

by Jane Roser “Jay came up with the name.” I’m sitting in a coffee shop with Lara Supan and Ben Potok, two-thirds of DC-based Americana band South Rail, talking about the group’s interesting origin story over lattes and the shouts of a perturbed customer Read More