From the college town of Ithaca, NY to stages around the world, X Ambassadors have definitely come a long way, baby. Since signing on with Alex Da Kid’s KIDinaKORNER division of Interscope Records and releasing their full-length album VHS in 2015 which boasted the signature hits “Unsteady,” “Jungle” and “Renegades,” brothers Sam and Casey Harris, Noah Feldshuh and Adam Levin […]

The last time that we “spoke” with Nashville’s Paper Route (JT Daly, Chad Howat and Nick Aranda), they composed a Postcard From the Road for us expressing that they had taken a familiar course of action: withdrawing themselves away from “civilization” deep in the hills of Tennessee for the business of music making by immersion with the intent to “focus on […]

“Genre: Southern-Gothic Psycho-Blues Revival-Punk One-Man-Band who does not play well with others.” At the time of this conversation Lincoln Durham was at home in Austin, TX with “nothing to do.” By the time you read this, he’ll probably be on the road armed with a couple of kick drums, a tambourine, some amps, a Dobro, some cigar box guitars and […]

Based on long-running advice column for The Hairpin, Lindsay King-Miller’s book Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls features new content designed to help LGBT women (and their straight friends) navigate the world of girls who like girls. King-Miller carefully crafts an interesting, informative narrative that is not only helpful for LGBT women, […]

The name Brendan McCreary may not ring an outright bell, but the singer-songwriter’s music has been internationally placed in just about every medium of storytelling. Brendan’s original songs have found themselves featured in CW’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and 90210 and NBC’s Trauma, while his impressive vocals and musicianship can be heard in many more projects including Battlestar Galactica as well as serving as […]

You probably aren’t familiar with the rock band, The Wrecks. The 5-piece consisting of Nick A. (vocals), Aaron (bass), Nick S. (guitar), Harrison (guitar), and Billy (drums) decided to come together in Thousand Oaks, CA and become a band only a few short months ago. Good luck finding any of their music online, but now is the time to put […]

A third of the way through their set at the venerable Los Angeles venue, the Satellite, The Kickback frontman, Billy Yost, announced his intention to finally make it through one show on the tour without breaking something. If guitar strings count as “something,” then Yost (vox, guitar), Eamonn Donnelly (bass), Jonny Ifergan (guitar) and Ryan Farnham (drums) failed. But that’s […]