Portland, Maine-based GoldenOak is the creative partnership between siblings Zak and Lena Kendall. The hush folk duo is preparing to release their sophomore LP, Room To Grow, on June 25th. Engineered by Ryan Ordway and Dan Capaldi, mixed by Ordway and Sam McArthur, and mastered by Adam Ayan, GoldenOak’s second studio album is a kinetic tribute to the untamed nature of climate change. READ MORE…
“How We See It Now” is the first record where we pooled our collective skills to collaborate. Usually I’m in the driver’s seat for most of our records, but because of all our pandemic isolation we really craved interaction. This was the easiest record to make in our catalog. Fortunately, there was no Real Housewives of June Star tension. These are songs about love, forgetfulness, enlightenment, regret, hope, and forgiveness– all the things we’ve been thinking about in the past year.” – Andrew Grimm, June Star
For many Americans, the work felt like it was done after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election. For Los Angeles punks the SP’s, this is no time to rest on our laurels. Their new song and video for “Rise/Fall,” which we’re premiering today, is about just that. READ MORE…
The Wirelight is the recording project of Lewis Beard, who might have been born a decade or two too late. New single, “Everything’s Cool,” takes us back to the wonderful days of Material Issue and early stages of the Gin Blossoms. READ MORE…
In Their Words: “Human beings are messy emotional creatures. Sometimes when we struggle to communicate in relationships it’s because there’s the voice we speak with and that voice in our head. ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’ bounces between a professed love to another person and a confessed loneliness on the inside.” — Andrew Grimm, June Star
Ahead of his forthcoming album, the Duluth-based musician Tony Petersen, aka Ditchbird, immerses in a burst of energy that’s packed with sharp hooks and a warm melodic sweetness on his latest single “Be Good to Yourself.”