One of the last times Mumford and Sons was playing in the state of Tennessee, Marcus Mumford left the stage to throw up in the middle of the set. This time, playing to an overjoyed crowd on a surprisingly cool August night in either Virginia or Tennessee—I’m still not sure– Marcus & Co didn’t vomit [...]

(Givers) “Women are our worst enemies and our best friends,” Adriel Denae (Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons) tells me. It’s sort of how we start our conversation — my first of three with the ladies of rock — and I have to agree, her insight into the female role in the music world couldn’t [...]

Dan Schwartz can sing higher than you. He’s been schooled by Jerry Douglas, he wears a size 8 shoe, and he spends most of his ‘alone’ time in a van on the road with Keith Goodwin (who can dance better than you) and Tim Arnold (who can hambone better than you). When he’s not spending [...]

To an outsider, it might sound like I’m hitting on Israel Nebeker throughout this chat without the Blind Pilot frontman, and that’s probably because I might have been. I’ll let you decide. Either way, this bashful bike-lover was affable and sweet, working hard to answer my scattered questions about marshmallows and songwriting, all while maintaining [...]

My conversation with Wesley Schultz, the lead singer of The Lumineers, began with some peculiar discussion of upside down banana unpeeling, hypothetical children’s names, and Bourbon allergies; yet it didn’t deter Schultz from revealing all the nuances of the up-and-comer’s songwriting secrets. After all, I told him we would start with the irrelevant questions. The [...]