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...]
“Women are told what to do with their mouths, When and where to swallow From birth, we learn to open wide Spooned milky submission, and force-fed silence Until our tongues turn heavy utensils we [Read more...]
Grand Rapids natives Obese Ghost Children bring visuals to their song “Eyelids” from their recently released EP Spoke. Obese Ghost Children is made up of rapper MC Friendly and producer Norty from the [Read more...]
The local performing art scene in Kalamazoo has, for over a decade, been an unusually direct reflection of its outlet options. It has ebbed and flowed in a direct corollary with spaces where it was [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...]
The little ones, an eight-year-old daughter and an-eight-month-old son, are in bed, and Justin Rogers is trying to answer my questions quietly. But his excitement and passion for art still shows, [Read more...]
Q: Tell me a little bit about the site and some of your work you have been doing? A: My website happened when I realized how I could be putting my skills to use for local artists and entrepreneurs [Read more...]