Archives for 2022

My highest belief is in duality. Not one thing is one thing only. Human nature is to force a category, a label to everything we experience. We mark our lives on a linear timeline and organize it into chapters. The point where a chapter ends, it also begins. It’s in these transitions that I find duality, where I find God. I find that duality mirrored in everything I think and feel.

Janus is the Roman god and goddess of transition, of beginnings and endings. It’s also the name of the new album by the Paula Boggs Band.  Paula Boggs is the primary songwriter of the band’s music but would describe herself more as a storyteller, a chronicler, or an observer, “of something I am trying to make sense of in the world,” Boggs says, “there are other songs that are quite personal and come from a deep place within.”  All of the songs were written or reimagined in early 2021, during what Boggs calls the triple pandemics of public health, race, and politics. 

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“This song was written about the idea that we can grow past the things that made us who we are. “The apple don’t fall far from the tree” is a sentence that always haunted me, coming from a pretty traumatic childhood, I couldn’t imagine anything worse, but as I got older I realized that there is another path. You cat choose your roots but you can find the sunlight and stretch yourself toward it,” says bluesy with a shot of twang vocalist Brittany Collins about her new latest track “The Apple.”

This track is a monumental huge nod to the artist because her debut album out on August 12th is titled Things I Tell My Therapist. With the constant stigma around mental health, we can call Collins a savior by putting the “T” word in the title of her rockin’ new artistic statement. And this is no vanilla public service message as Collins rocks with vigorous abandon reminiscent of Heartless Bastards and Lydia Loveless.

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Silver Lining is a need-to-know, harmony-smitten band from Oslo, Norway, earning praise for its sophomore studio album, Go Out Nowhere, available now via Die With Your Boots on Record.

We caught up primarily with founding member Live Miranda Solberg to hear her thoughts on the record and the band’s latest music video release, who her favorite harmony singers are, and who she’s most excited to see at this year’s Olso Americana festival.

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One wouldn’t necessarily expect the cold wintry climate of Norway to be fertile ground for the dusty folk tales of Americana, but over the past decade, the country has been home to a thriving revival coined as Nordicana. In 2018, members of The Northern Belle and Louien, two of the scene’s most celebrated acts, formed a supergroup of sorts, Silver Lining, debuting to local acclaim with the mellow and rustic acoustic style of their first album, Heart and Mind Alike.

Next month, the band are back with their sophomore record, Go Out Nowhere. Their newest effort brings forth the grand sweeping side of Nordicana, with a widescreen vision and an expansive sound palette. They have teased the record with a handful of singles, including last year’s “Go Out Nowhere” and this year’s “The Dream and “Your Everything.” Today the band have shared the record’s latest single, “Silver Lining,” premiering with Under the Radar.

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From the first burst of harmonica, jangly guitars, and contagious ’90s melodies on Peter Donovan’s “You Told Me Not To Call (I’m Wasted), ” you know this soon-to-be hit-maker has a knack for Smithereens/Marshal Crenshaw sprinkled power pop. After finding success and a dedicated fanbase with Seattle’s All The Real Girls and his side project The Rose Petals (alongside Elijah Ocean), Donovan returns this spring with his first proper solo album, This Better Be Good (4/29). Glide is premiering the hook-filled single “You Told Me Not To Call (I’m Wasted), ” (below) proving super snappy nostalgic laden tunes will never go out of style.

“Sometimes when you’re still in love with your ex, you drown your sorrows in a variety pack of White Claw, then decide it’s a good idea to telephone said ex and let them know how you feel. (Note: this is not a good idea.) When writing the song, I was trying to emulate the tongue-in-cheek storytelling of Warren Zevon and Fountains of Wayne. Musically, we drew influence from Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, and 90s bands that I loved growing up, like The Wallflowers and Gin Blossoms. Embracing WWGBD? (What Would Gin Blossoms Do?) as the band’s operating principle in the studio led us to many tambourines, some jangly 12-string acoustics, and a splash of harmonica courtesy of producer Bradley Laina,” says Donovan.

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David Quinn’s new single “Down Home” is a honky tonk homecoming, a celebration of leaving city life behind for the return to one’s country roots.

“Down Home” is the first single from Quinn’s upcoming album Country Fresh, due out on April 15. The track opens with a rollicking guitar riff and Quinn’s declaration that he’s packing his bags and hitting the road. His vocals, which are somehow both smooth and gritty, sound like they belong to a man who’s no stranger to moving on.

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