Vaudeville Etiquette’s Aura Vista Motel crafts an intimate story with the name alone. Taken from a motel off of highway 99 in Seattle, Vaudeville Etiquette’s hometown, Aura Vista Motel once housed a generation of writers and artists, and is now the rehearsal space where Vaudeville Etiquette makes their music. Vaudeville Etiquette says that in their […]
Described as folk pop, the duo that makes up Big Little Lions (which to me sounds like characters in from a whimsical children’s book) is Helen Austin and Paul Otten. Their songs touch your soul and have an inherent optimism to them that has resonated with people across the United States and Canada, where Otten […]
Animal Noise comes from a place that, to the average (read: geographically challenged) American, sounds like it originated in the mind of George R. R. Martin. The three-person band, comprised of Josh Sandifer (vocals), Michael Bird (bass), and Jack Abbott (drums), is known to have practiced in a cowshed on a farm in East Anglia. […]
As we see the invention or resurgence of certain musical genres, there are always bands that will come to shape or embody that genre. When folk music was adopted in the ‘60s and adapted into a new genre, folk-rock, it was musicians like Bob Dylan or groups like Crosby, Stills, and Nash that came to […]
By Emma Cohen of Indie Band Guru Laura Gibson is an impressively prolific Oregonian indie folk artist. Her latest album is a breathe of fresh air, especially for me and my normally hectic life. Like her past work — all six of her albums — Empire Builder is as sweet as a stream, but not without little rough […]
Many of us have known somebody who can do it all when it comes to music. Whether it be playing the piano, guitar, some other random instrument, or even mixing the tunes on a laptop, such a person has enough skill that they don’t need help from anyone else. One such person is Matt Martin, the […]
I’ve never been to Burning Man, but I’ve visited the North American desert and danced around in a Baja jacket like the Pittsburghers of Rusted Root have been known to do. So when I started listening to Voice of the Wind by Trevor Green, I was lifted from the banalities of my everyday routine and […]
A few years ago, if you used the term “Indie” to describe a particular type of music, people might have been confused. While the term used to be a describing factor for lesser known artists, it seems to have branched out into its own genre in the most recent of times. Now, in 2016, you […]
