With 40 years of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have also made their mark as dedicated activists, feminists, and out lesbians. Ever since “Closer to Fine” in 1989, the Indigo Girls have been on queer women’s playlists, as well as in Deneuve and Curve regularly. By […]
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Brooklyn Americana band Yarn’s new music on Born, Blessed, Grateful, & Alive reverberates with echoes of past classic rock and country from the 1970s and 1980s. By Steve Horowitz Born, Blessed, Grateful, & Alive is Yarn’s first studio album in eight years. The new music reverberates with echoes of past classic rock and country from the 1970s and
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NO DEPRESSION Reviews Yarn’s ‘Born, Blessed, Grateful & Alive’ Yarn’s latest, Born, Blessed, Grateful & Alive, opens with grand, sweeping blues rock and an imperative: get off that screen and join the party. The music, the message to “Turn Off the News,” neither are all that radical, but that’s not the point. It feels good —
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The Indigo Girls joined the host of Southern Living Magazine‘s Biscuits & Jam podcast to talk about their latest projects – a documentary and a rom-com, their relationship with the South, their passion for music and how they’ve endured being openly gay artists in the South and music industry. Listen to the full podcast here
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Singer Chris Smither sat down with NPR’s Don Gonyea to talk about his latest release “All About the Bones”. DON GONYEA, HOST: Chris Smither learned to play music in New Orleans on his mother’s ukulele. He loved the blues as a kid, but he started his career as a folk artist in Cambridge, Mass., in
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The folk-blues stalwart Chris Smither has been contemplating mortality throughout his decades of songwriting; at 80, he’s more convincing than ever. “All About the Bones,” a modal blues with saxophone joining Smither’s foot-tapping and fingerpicked guitar, pays tribute to bone anatomy — “Some will make you stronger/Others make you tall” — along with the gruff
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Is it “starting over” or is it “starting fresh?” Either way, it can be daunting: a blank canvas, a dream unrealized, turning the page to a new chapter, maybe throwing away all your notes and starting a whole new book. There comes a time after we experience challenges when turning a new leaf could grow
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Catch the folk icons performing there new single, “What We Wanna Be” from the musical film, Glitter & Doom May 8, 2024: Folk icons Indigo Girls will be live Wednesday, May 8, on Late Night With Seth Meyers; the show broadcasts on NBC affiliates at 12:35 AM EDT and will be archived online. The duo
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THE NC-VIA NYC BAND RETURNS WIT BORN, BLESSED, GRATEFUL & ALIVE “effortlessly blends Americana, country-rock, and a feel-good funk groove that keeps everything bouncing along with a jubilant feeling” — GLIDE Nashville, TN: Yarn, headed by songwriter Blake Christiana, is back with a new album, Born, Blessed, Grateful, & Alive, out July 26 via Symphonic Distribution.
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Alt-rock trailblazer Matthew Sweet is releasing an archival live record of one of his most fabled performances — a July 4, 1993 show at Chicago’s Grant Park. Live at Grant Park Chicago July 4, 1993 – available today on all streaming services. Originally recorded by Metro Mobile Recording for Chicago radio station WXRT, the blistering
