Articles by Amanda Ash

Amy Millan Needs To Be Alone

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2009

It's been three years since Amy Millan released her debut solo album Honey From The Tombs, stepping outside the glittery pop stardom of Sta...

Eamon McGrath

13 Songs Of Whiskey And Light

PUBLISHED May 19, 2009

Distilled from over 20 home recordings and approximately 150 songs, Eamon McGrath's 13 Songs Of Whiskey And Light provides an accurate snap...

The Flying Change

Pain Is A Reliable Signal

PUBLISHED May 13, 2009

The Flying Change's Pain Is A Reliable Signal isn't your typical alt-folk record. It doesn't document whiskey bottles, prairie fields or po...

Royal Wood

PUBLISHED May 12, 2009

Royal Wood's The Lost And Found EP may be a buffer between his celebrated 2007 release A Good Enough Day and his full-length follow-up reco...

Leeroy Stagger

Everything Is Real

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2009

Who let Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen into Leeroy Stagger's body? Stagger's fourth studio release, Everything Is Real, captures a more ma...

Sugarplum

Miss Twisted

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2009

With an ironclad backbone and a ladylike approach to life's little obstacles, Sugarplum forges together her very own brand of country folk...

Priska Zemp aka Heidi Happy

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2009

Heidi Happy's Priska Zemp can sing until the Swiss cows come home. That's because she's never at a loss for musical fodder. Built out of br...

Heidi Happy

Flowers, Birds and Home

PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2009

Eighteen tracks and a million random musings later, Flowers, Birds and Home never feels overexposed. Instead, each song sounds like it come...