I recently had the pleasure of an interview with our new music blogger, Dan Rickabus. This young man from Michigan has a happy perspective on life, a strong yet smokey rock’n'roll voice and a weird way of making ukelele work in his catchy alt-rock songs. Podcast only.
Profit seems to be to music as The Force is to Jedi knights. The right amount of money used in the right way can be the light from heaven for a band or musician. However, it can also be a true poison to honest art.
Here’s a video from uke-rocker (?!) Dan Rickabus. His smooth-yet-gritty voice and his big, ukelele-glazed rock sensibilities are very easy on the ears.
Jeremy Olsen of The Avocado Jungle conducts an interview with Joe Vaux, whose acrylics on wood surfaces simultaneously evoke both children’s nightmares and dark metaphors for very grown-up truths.
Nathan Schafer performs “You Did” from his EP A Lapse in my home for our series “Music In Our House.” Jeremy Olsen conducts an interview, and we’ve also got a track straight from the CD for you.
This week in the Jungle
we are searching for the truth about friendship. What are the challenges of maintaining friendships, be it in context of the modern age, family needs, sacrifice, reciprocity, forgiveness, or trust? What does friendship mean right now? Last week: profit. Next week: American muscle.
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