We have with us today an immensely talented singer-songwriter: Noa Bar.    Noa has been working as a professional recording artist and performer for a few years now, and already she’s made a major impact on the music world in her home country of Israel, here in the United States where she now lives, and […]

You’re probably tired of hearing about those age-old pandemic restrictions by now, but for musicians all around the world, it’s hard to forget just how different life was when live music simply wasn’t allowed.    It almost sounds like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel or a prog-rock concept album, but for nearly two […]

Jake Xerxes Fussell attempted and failed for more than a decade to perform an ancient American folk tune he had adored since he was a youngster. “Oh, go get your revolver / And come on and blow out my brain / For I’d rather be dead and in my grave / Than to be in […]

My mother used to have a vacation home on the Mornington Peninsula with her brothers and sisters. My cousin, sister, and I were so anxious to save the home when they informed us they wanted to sell it one year that we came up with a plan: we’d start organizing tiny festival parties in the […]

Jana Horn had no idea what her song Jordan was about when she penned it. She’d been brooding over two chords for two days at her brother’s place after a breakup when a lyric occurred to her: “They called me to Jordan.” She followed the trail of the thread. “I had no idea what I […]

Leo Nocentelli is impossible to pin down. When I ask how the renowned funk guitarist’s astonishing solo record Another Side came to be published after 50 years in obscurity, he gives me the whole tale in a seven-minute monologue, but I can’t confirm his age. “It’s not important,” he adds, his Louisiana accent thick as […]