It's springtime in Michigan. Birds aren't chirping. Flowers aren't blooming. Snow is falling. A caveat that I shouldn't go outside, yet rather continue hibernating with my endless array of frozen [Read more...]
Grand Rapids, Michigan is a town known for great beer and an entrenched and established local music scene, dominated by veterans with sizable fan bases and audiences; however matters of scale can’t [Read more...]
I’m sitting on the floor of his olive-green living room, failing to combat Bruce the dog’s sloppy kisses. There’s colored Christmas lights strung from one end of the house’s interior to the other, and [Read more...]
Post precociousness, used to braggadocios shit / but settled down, once given all my recommended dosages / of hopelessness, supposed to keep the prose so lit / but lubricated haters with my [Read more...]
The Grand Rapids indie folk rockers Jake Down and the Midwest Mess recently spent some time in the studio with producer Jake Rye recording a new single. The song, Locust, which features bassist Jake [Read more...]
Musical sounds and styles are directly influenced by their surrounding environment. The brains behind Radi8er understand this and help music lovers embrace it. The new music platform, [Read more...]
Of all the words you could use to describe Rick Chyme, perhaps the one that best characterizes him is “genuine” - which is important, given his purview. Anyone espousing the type of unapologetic [Read more...]
SkipFiction sat down with Tom Scheidel from Jake's Musical Festival to get the full scoop on this great event in which every dollar donated goes directly to fund research to cure Type 1 [Read more...]
As the synth begins to swell, laying the foundation for “License to Drive”, the first track on Valley Girl’s debut EP, you get the feeling that you have in a theater when the lights darken just as a [Read more...]