Music, Outdoors, Life
Just to be near Willy Tea Taylor is to love him. He speaks with the warm embrace of a bed of coals in a fire. He resembles the warrior elf Gimli from Lord of the Rings, and laughs with the same rambunctious brawn. His songs are as intimate as a late night conversation with your… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Willy Tea Taylor
"The next time a hurricane hits, I just want to load up boards in my truck and go to the Outer Banks. Maybe put some shows together. My manager would love that." Singer-songwriter Will Overman drops that line as he talks to me over the phone, cruising somewhere in the Shenandoah. Touring on the whims… Continue reading Moonlighting: Will Overman
If there were someone I’d want to huck it off a powdery cliff with, it’d be Molly Armanino. For one, she has a knack for finding big features in out of the way spots. She rides with her brother and filmmaker Sam Armanino with a big crew of hucksters in Squid and Friends – which… Continue reading Q&A: Molly Armanino
You don’t move to Lake Tahoe for the money. You move there because that big-ass alpine lake looks like the best summer of your life and those gorgeous mountains look fun as hell to ski in the winter. You stay – always a couple years longer than you thought – because there’s an existential gravitas… Continue reading Squid and Friends: All Fun, No Money
When the shot comes along to sleep on the top of a mountain pass in a truck camper with two of your buddies to get morning freshies, you gotta take it. My buddy was back in Denver after spending the last six months in New Orleans sailing some of the stormiest seas life had thrown… Continue reading Set, Setting, Tuneage: Los Days: West Winds
Take a deep breath, close your eyes. I need you to imagine you are a small child, barely old enough to stand, let alone walk or speak. You're too young to understand where your parents are but you know they aren’t there. Some say they might have been in a car accident and they aren’t… Continue reading Connor Ryan’s Home in the Peaks
The first time I saw Matt Goff create was in the back of an old wooden ski lodge at Lost Sierra Hoedown, a music gathering of ski bums, music pro’s and hippie locals deep in the chilly bosom of the Sierras. A fire crackled behind me, a small crowd hushed beside me and Goff rippled… Continue reading Artist’s Palette: Matt Goff
Set, Setting, Tuneage seeks to share the experience of listening to music in our lives rather than the thinking of music in our minds. I was where I had wanted to be for weeks. To my left and in front of me was a shallow lake rippling in the afternoon wind. Behind me was Coffee… Continue reading Set, Setting, Tuneage: DLZMKSBTS: the LUCKY tape
Virginia City, Nevada has always been a place of hardtack women. Found in the desert mountains just to the east of Reno it was the site of the first large deposit of silver ore the Comstock Lode and became one of the biggest silver boom towns of the era, a swelling zeitgeist of danger, excitement… Continue reading Q&A: Caitlin Jemma
I don't know if I've ever listened to Will Johnson in the bright of the day. His music seems to live in the softer light of the dawn and dusk, where things aren't so clear and the quiet helps you tune into the parts of your soul you ignore in the daylight. From fronting the… Continue reading Q&A: Will Johnson
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