by DuskArts | Jan 28, 2026 | Advocacy, Americana, Country, Folk, Interview, Music, New Release
With a reputation preceding them of unapologetically standing up for human rights, cross-cultural dialogue, organized labor, and women in folk music—not to mention everywhere else!—the 50% gay, 100% badass all-girl band Della Mae are one of the preeminent artists in...
by DuskArts | Nov 2, 2025 | Alt Rock, Alternative, Dream Pop, Music, Music Review, New Release, Review, Rock, Singer Songwriter
Album cover by Hypnodoll™ / Photos by Alice Teeple Singer-songwriter-producer-Renaissance man Charlie Nieland’s album Stories From The Borderlines offers a smoothly impressionistic, almost eccentric, obliquely uplifting, and often life-affirming set of timely songs...
by DuskArts | Jul 5, 2025 | Artist, Interview, Music, New Release, Pop, Singer Songwriter
[This article was originally posted in 2020 and has been reposted with slight changes to its format.] daena [name not capitalized!] has put out a transcendently uplifting new single “Bright Enough” just in time for National Coming Out Day two days later. Picking up...
by DuskArts | Jun 30, 2025 | Music, Music Review, Pop, Review, Singer Songwriter
photo by Acacia Evans It’s interesting that daena brands herself as an “indie” pop artist because I’ve seen no press pictures in which she looks like a Middle American dad from the 80s. No trucker caps, no ironic mustaches—not even one jort! And her music doesn’t...
by DuskArts | May 18, 2025 | Alt Rock, Alternative, Music, Music Review, New Release, Pop Punk, Review, Rock
[This article was originally posted in 2021 and has been reposted with minor edits.] Queen Cult bang out a timely hit on their latest single “Show and Tell,” which describes the utter superficiality of demagogues past and present. To paraphrase the lyrics,...
