If Chan Marshall’s 11th album included all of Cat Power’s songs in their original form, it would be a fantastic playlist. It would be genre-spanning, taking in everything from forgotten classics (country superstar Kitty Wells’ It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels) to beloved classics (Nico’s These Days), from obscure numbers by obscure artists […]

Californian by birth, Oregonian by choice Margo Cilker has spent years honing her story-songs on the road, touring throughout the United States and the Basque Country of Spain, where she created a covers band and sang songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. “You have to face your fears,” she says, “and […]

Some musicians have such a powerful, real, and resonating passion for music that all they have to do is submit to the resulting ecstasy. Eris Drew, a DJ and producer from Chicago, is one of those talents, and she relishes the opportunity. Her perspective of house music taps into its potential as a vehicle for […]

This article will discuss rock songs with good drum beats. If you have tried to sing a song with good drum beats then you know the great difficulty of trying to convey something that is technically incorrect while singing. There is always a possibility of what seems to be a hard-core drum beat seeming to […]

A good DJ can make the biggest of differences with the music they are playing at a show. Everyone comes in with their own ideas about what kind of music they want to hear and how they want it to sound. Although this is great, you should also know how to get the crowd going. […]