When I first heard Keller&Cole it was in a basement, at a house party, in front of 40 people. More than a year later, when I heard Keller&Cole’s first 2020 single, “Love Drunk Alchemy” it felt like the room I was in wasn’t big enough for them. So, I took it for a drive. Blasting …
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Review by Tim McLaughlinPrinciple at Hapless Guitar Photography Chad Mills will bring songs from his new album The Refrain to Radio Radio, in the Fountain Square neighborhood, on January 25. The night will also see music performances by The Porchmen and the Upright Willies. If you’ve seen Chad Mills over the last year or two, …
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Lukas Nelson could have used his name and bypassed every small-town joint in the world. Instead, he honed his skills in the places most of us haunt. For that, he deserves our respect. photos by Joey Martin Terre Haute’s Verve Nightlclub sits along Wabash Avenue. Two-and-a-half blocks to its north—in Indiana State University’s Hulman Center—Larry …
There’s something about the Hotel Tango stage at the Virginia Avenue Music Fest. Two years ago, my finacée and I stumbled upon a young Dacota Muckey, cutting his musical teeth with band, The Trip. Last year, on yet another warm and beautiful Saturday, lightning struck again. Well, it wasn’t literally lightning. Something happened, however. Wendi …
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I stumbled upon Dacota Muckey by accident. Wendi*, some good friends, and I had just finished downing what seemed like a half-keg of Chilly Water’s blood orange IPA while Brother O’ Brother ripped open the Saturday leg of 2017’s Virginia Avenue Music Fest. Warner Swopes had spent the last half hour hammering on his drums like …
I grew up in southeastern Indiana, baptized in a basketball hoop and spoon-fed Mellencamp tunes like it was gospel. It was the typical childhood of a Hoosier kid in the 80’s. As I got older, I listened carefully for anything that resembled those Mellencamp songs. You know, songs about growing up, young love, and the trials …
By Cory Huffman Featured Image by Angie Lipscomp of Angie Lipscomp Photography I was a freshman at The University of Cincinnati when I met Dizzy in the spring of 2002, at a basement party off of Ohio Street. There was a band playing that night—Fate Hates Us—and I was unwillingly pressed up against a woman who …
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The coffee I’m sipping is bitter and the mug is chipped close to the handle. Steam escapes the dark black surface like a halo of wispy morning fog, and I am alone with my thoughts. Nothing filters through my mind seems important. Just thoughts. Fragments of ideas. Every year when the winter fades away and …
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We are hauntingly morbid creatures, we humans. We mask it well. We’re particularly adept at convincing everyone around us that our inner Darth Vaders, those devilish souls lurking in the darkened crevasses of the mind don’t exist at all. We shower our friends and neighbors with cheerful pomp, gregarious smiles, brisk and firm handshakes. We …
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by Patrick Barcus featured image by Cheney Hagerup (Photos by Cheney) Recently, I had the honor of being offered a couple of seats at an intimate gathering, to have a fine holiday meal with a select group of friends. All of us shared one particular trait: our love of Gus Moon and his music. And …
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