The return to live music - the return to normal life even - has been hard. At home we were having discussions with ourselves: “Is it safe to go?” and “what mitigating steps would can we be taking to make it safe?” For some, it can be anxiety inducing. On the other side of that ordeal, though, are the scenes we love. Scenes filled with the music, people, and energy that thrills us. Scenes that m...

"It changed me", Nix Northwest told us as we spoke to him after his gig, wrapping up our first live show back post-Covid, and marking the dawn of a new era of gigs and live music. You can watch our full interview with Nix covering this and a whole host of other musical topics, but what he was referring to , of course, was the creation of his debut EP: Life's a Bitch, I Just Need an Early Night....

My first grade teacher was beautiful and looked a lot like a younger version of the movie star Sofia Loren. Fresh out of the Peace Corp she like so many others of her generation was out to save the world and definitely made a difference. I can still picture her in her tight pencil skirt and beautiful black hair like my mama’s.My family was poor and worked alongside other migrant farm workers ...