Author: Jerrett
50mething Writes About Love the Second Time Around on “These Fine Lines”
50mething, the project of Paul Jenner, came to music later in life after years working as a dancer and a garden builder, and “These Fine Lines” finds him turning that…
Grey & Purple Songbook Turns Stage Fright Into Triumph on “This Is My Crescendo”
Grey & Purple Songbook works backward from most bands. Rather than writing music first and fitting words to it, this Oslo-based creative duo starts with a narrative, a theme, a…
Ronald Hage Builds “Paragliding” From the Piano Up
Ronald Hage doesn’t start his tracks in a DAW. He starts at an acoustic piano, working out a melody by hand before any software gets involved, and everything else, drums,…
Asta Bria Conjures a Nocturnal, Arabic-Tinged Mood on “Virus”
Asta Bria has never really stayed in one lane. Trained as a violinist from childhood, first at Lithuania’s Vilnius Conservatory and later at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels before settling…
Ryan Yingst Puts a Number on the Overlooked Work of Being a Musician on “Ordinary Means”
Ryan Yingst’s “Ordinary Means,” isn’t chasing anything grand. It’s a folk single built around the unglamorous parts of trying to make a living as a musician, and it earns its…
Den Edie Turns a Song He Wrote in 1986 Into “Holding On”
Some songs get written for a moment. Den Edie’s “Holding On,” was written for an entire life. The idea goes back to 1986, when Edie was a young sailor in…
Ellijai Turns a Bad Idea Into a Great Song on “Skinny Boyfriend”
Ellijai has a knack for writing about the kind of attraction that makes no sense on paper and total sense in the moment. The eighteen-year-old Glasgow singer-songwriter’s fourth single of…
DJ Thommek Finds a Gentle Groove on “Falling Back In Love”
DJ Thommek didn’t start out behind a laptop. The Düsseldorf-based producer’s roots are in guitar and double bass, recording early ideas onto cassette long before he ever touched digital production,…
Peningo Riders Pay Tribute to a Legendary NY Venue on “High Street Roadhouse”
Peningo Riders didn’t start out as a band. They started as a guitar lesson. Eddie Pellon signed up to learn from Russ Davis, and somewhere along the way the lesson…
KaiserKillers Trade Volume for Restraint on “Isolation”
Colchester’s KaiserKillers usually work in a different register than this. Their catalog runs on what the band themselves call PowerPopPunk, stacked guitars, tight harmonies, and an energy that nods back…
