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Rich Wyman and Lisa Needham’s new song “Forgiveness” stems from an argument. “It was a big fight, and I had to leave and go out for a walk,” Needham said. “I came back, and Richard...
James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...
After a long journey filled with vinyl pressing delays, The Abruptors are just one day away from releasing their much-anticipated album Noticeably Cheerless. Their second album sees the Buffalo-based band perfecting their soulful ska sound as they dive deep into anxiety, depression, loneliness, and ...
Creativity isn’t something a person can just lock away, not without consequences.After recording an album when she was 25, Lisa Piccirillo had set aside writing music for a decade and a half for all the usual reasons: Other jobs paid the bills. She...
The Year In Ska & Ska-Punk: Albums, EPs & Singles not to miss from 2020 Ska never went away, but there's more widespread interest for the genre right now than there has been in a while. Nostalgia tends to move in 20-ish year cycles and it's been about two decades since ska's last peak in popularity died down, enough time has passed for the unfair stigma to fade away, and the anti-racism aspect of ska hits hard after four years of having Trump as a president. But it's not just timing; there's an increasingly strong network of bands working hard to show that ska is alive and well, and those ban...