Storytellers

By Jason Sendaula The power behind the music of Crow Vs Lion is local artist Dan Gallagher. This singer/songwriter, a self-taught guitar, banjo, bass, and mandolin player just released his debut solo album Rest Your Bones. This labor of love was a long time in coming. Read More

By Hannah Zaic It’s pretty subdued at Milkboy Coffee the night Rachel Platten comes to town. The crowd is doing what coffee shop crowds do best: chat, listen, chat, sip, listen. Chat. Her opener, a very capable young man with an acoustic guitar, finishes the opening set. Read More

By Ryan O’Connell Photo by Zack Gross On her way to Nashville, Tennessee, cruising through the rolling hills of Virginia and into Tennessee with two other singer/songwriter gals, Christy Jefferson got pulled over. The state trooper who nabbed them looked like a teddy bear. Read More

By Raymond Simon Photo by Olivia Vaughn Even a casual listen to Christie Lenée’s instrumental, “Evolution,” reveals that she’s not your run-of-the-mill folkie. In a little more than six minutes, the piece skillfully blends elements of modern classical Read More

By Raymond Simon Photo by Olivia Vaughn Michael McShane won’t stand for any of that live-fast-die-young rock-‘n’-roll malarkey. “The longer I live, the happier I am,” McShane declares by phone to discuss his ongoing musical project, Cowmuddy, a Read More

By Jason Sendaula Photo by Lisa Schaffer OV: What is the name in reference to? Why Hezekiah and what’s this I hear about a pet snail? RC: Yeah, it was the name of my snail. We put our first songs on the Internet in 2005, when we were just fooling around with the stuff. When Read More