Even though you are a person on earth, or even potentially a ‘music fan,’ you may not have heard of Aaron Tullier. You may not be familiar with any of the gush of releases on his Defective Bat Records, which come out at regular intervals under a spate of monikers that tend to follow an adjective/animal formula, similar to the label name itself.
Snake Boy Gang’s new music video for “Roller Coaster,” the second track off of their recent debut album Spit, is about as non-direct and non-coherent as their name. Both are a collection of concepts strung together by force of will, immediately throwing us into Madeline Rafter’s world, a world that’s pretty dang human.
Shannen Moser's Oh, My Heart is a potent and spiritual collection of folk songs buoyed by Moser’s unmistakable, country-tinged voice. Moser and Julia Leiby discussed the process of recording her first professional album, her influences in Philadelphia and beyond, sacred harp singing, and what songwriting means to her.
