Single Release: Katie Schurman, “The Next”
Releasing your first single is like standing on the sidewalk and holding your underwear drawer open for the world to see. It’s like tattooing…
folk/roots
Review: Great Lake Swimmers, “Caught Light”
Full disclosure: Great Lake Swimmers (GLS) is the reason that I’m on the Great Dark Wonder team of writers. Ever since I was introduced…
GDW Jukebox: Autumn Additions
It seems like it was just yesterday when we last updated the GDW Jukebox in time for the summer season. Yet here we are…
The Local Honeys: Live in Hagerstown, MD
For the second consecutive Thursday evening, we had tickets in hand to a live music event. Having spent the previous Thursday catching up with…
The Sadies: Live in State College, PA
Seeds for this show were planted back in mid-July, thanks to a notification popping up in our social media feeds announcing that Toronto, ON…
Single Release: McKayla Daigle, “Hold My Head Up High”
As the whirlwind of summer fades – the late nights, the road trips, the festival haze – a quieter season takes its place. The…
Commonwealth Connections: The Paper Kites – Live in Vienna, VA
We shared our concert recap of the visit by Australian soul-rockers The Teskey Brothers to the Filene Center at Wolf Trap recently – but…
Single Release: Jacob Rose, “We Keep Trying (To Make Something New)”
Some songs just have it – a certain traveling, almost cinematic quality that I can’t quite put my finger on. It reminds me of a live music…
Single Release: Larkk, “Caverns”
We receive a ton of new music press releases daily here at GDW, but given our very limited time and resources, only a small…
Rick Sparkes + the Enablers: Live in Quispamsis, NB
I spent the last few weeks of August assigned to a work project in Saint John, New Brunswick. On a few of those days,…