Warning. This is going to get maudlin. I didn’t write about David Bowie on Monday. Not much. I shared some songs with other fans who were grieving. I posted errant comments about this video, that concert, this picture, that memory. But I didn’t write anything. I didn’t even think about writing anything. It was like being caught in a…
Interview by Cindy Donaghue. With a resume of performing for dignataries at the UN, acting in popular TV shows, collaborating with main-stream musicians like Jason Mraz, Gnarls Barkley, Black Eyed Peas, and Coldplay, and even lending his image for an Xbox game, you’d think Keaton Simons would be one of those unapproachable artists who doesn’t need or want to…
I only recently discovered Joshua Hyslop, and in fact even more recently featured him in a blog post where I shared a few of his music videos. I really love his new CD Where the Mountain Meets the Valley which you can stream in its entirety here and then of course purchase here. I was curious to find out…
Every few months I collect hundreds of songs from various free downloads I find and albums I buy and then I put the new songs on repeat in the background and see which ones stand out. Those songs get moved into a special folder of songs I don’t want to lose. I was making my second collection of the…
Everywhere Matt Duke performs, jaws have to be scraped off the floor from the shock and awe. Such was my experience, which you can read about here in the feature we ran on him last month. (Go on – you can listen to some of his music there too.) You may have pre-conceived ideas about cornflower blue-eyed boys with…
Kris Orlowski is a singer-songwriter from Seattle who recently graced us on the East Coast at the Outer Banks for Pat McGee’s Down the Hatch. I wasn’t familiar with Kris before this event, but one day I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and heard Kris perform. I left a huge fan…
Only occasionally do I encounter one of those artists who hits me on every level – intellectually, emotionally, comically, melodically… The very first time I heard Matt Duke perform, I knew I had discovered a new favorite musician, but over time, I’ve come to realize that Matt is, to me, one of the rare genius musicians that I will…
Keaton Simons is a sexy motherfucker, a hell of a musician, and a genuinely nice guy. My friends and I were lucky enough to hang out at Pat McGee’s Down the Hatch in OBX and listen to a bunch of wonderful artists perform several sets over a few days last week. Keaton was a definite highlight and a great…