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An influential fixture on the East Coast DIY scene and beyond, Sean Sprecher has been creating profound and sincere music that deals with unhappiness and its absurdity in equal measure since 2007. He has been performing under the name Bad History Month since 2013, transitioning from Fat History Month, a name he used when playing as a duo with drummer Mark Fede. Despite a career marked by sporadic disappearances and the often deliberate avoidance of public attention, Sprecher was already a cult figure in DIY circles in 2017 when the release of his first album as Bad History Month, Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration Of Pessimysticism, brought him to wider attention, drawing praise from the likes of Pitchfork, Stereogum and NPR who described the album as an exercise in &#8220;high grade introspection&#8221; that functions &#8220;like message meant to be folded into a square, tucked into a pocket, and returned to in solitude during times of distress.&#8221;

Bad History Month

Music

Bad History Month and Rick From Pile Are Learning To Chill

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David Bazan writes/plays/sings songs. Half the time he lives near Seattle with his wife and two kids. His website is <a href="http://davidbazan.com/">here</a>.

David Bazan

Podcast

Joe Pera Talks with <strike>You</strike> David Bazan (Pedro The Lion) on the Talkhouse Podcast

As punk rock proliferated radio airwaves, Dashboard Confessional cemented their role at the vanguard of an entire music scene. Facing familiar aches with tenderness and precision, singer/songwriter Chris Carrabba rocketed the band into mainstream focus, solidifying their place as one of the biggest alternative bands of the 2000s. Crooked Shadows—the return of Dashboard Confessional and the band’s first new album in over eight years —explores Carrabba’s reclamation of those simple yet extraordinary moments in life that long stood as the unsung heroes of his songwriting, as he reflects on experiences of his own and those closest to him. The result is a deeply cathartic body of work that traverses the complications and vulnerabilities of relationships while scrutinizing the possibility of self-improvement.
(Photo Credit: David Bean)

Chris Carrabba

The Way We Get By: Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional Is Reading Political Books

mxmtoon is a singer-songwriter based in California. Her EP dawn is out April 2020 via her own label.
(Photo Credit: April Blum)

mxmtoon

The Way We Get By: NYT’s Modern Love Reminds mxmtoon She’s Not Alone

Chelsea Ursin is the creator and host of the podcast Dear Young Rocker. Chelsea started the cello and bass guitar at age 12, and joined her first rock band at 15. In college she studied sound recording technology. Later she wrote a memoir titled Bass Player as the thesis for her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College, which became the basis for Dear Young Rocker. She lives in Boston where she regularly performs with her band Banana and volunteers as a mentor and bass teacher for the Girls Rock Camp Boston.

Chelsea Ursin

Something You Do Alone in a Room

Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee are two kindred spirits who first met on the banks of the Mississippi while touring the Midwest festival circuit. Born and raised in Arkansas, Winter found herself drawn to the evergreens and damp air of the Pacific Northwest, as well as the boundless music scene of Olympia, Washington. She released three solo records on Olympia-based indie label, K Records, and performed in ramblin’ folk bands and anarchic punk bands before serendipitously meeting Palmer T. Lee in 2013. Lee had built his first banjo when he was 19 from pieces he inherited and began cutting his teeth fronting Minneapolis string bands before convincing Winter that they should form a banjo duo. Now, as The Lowest Pair, they have recorded and released five albums together, relentlessly toured North America, and ventured to the UK twice, playing over 500 live shows over the past five years.
After each releasing solo albums via Conor Oberst’s Team Love Records in 2018, Winter and Lee began working on The Lowest Pair’s forthcoming 10-song set, The Perfect Plan. As a songwriting team, the duo tends to see artistic sparks all around them — in poems, people, ideas, experiences – and throughout the process of writing these new songs, they felt the need to push their creative limits. They turned to producer Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes who took them to ARC Studios in Omaha, Nebraska, and set them in a soundscape backed by a slate of session players that lifts the album from simple folk into spirited Americana and beyond.
(Photo Credit: Sarah Kathryn Wainwright)

The Lowest Pair

Hear First: The Lowest Pair’s The Perfect Plan

Taylor Rice is the vocalist and guitarist for Local Natives.
(Photo credit: Nathanial Wood)

Taylor Rice

The Way We Get By: Taylor Rice Has Been Taking Virtual Dance Classes

U.S. Girls is Meg Remy’s musical moniker. The Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist&#8217;s music traces a circuitous evolution. It encompasses unconventional, challenging sound work as prominently as her vocally-driven explorations of American pop mores (often on the same album). Since 2007, Remy has toured several times in Europe, Eastern Canada and the United States. She accompanies her hugely distinctive voice with innovative set-ups, including combinations of reel-to-reel players, tape decks, and samplers, as well as occasionally singing with a full band. Remy has released a clutch of original records on labels as diverse as Siltbreeze, Kraak, FatCat and her own Calico Corp. imprint.
Her latest album Heavy Light was released in March 2020 via 4AD.

U.S. Girls

The Way We Get By: Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) Actually Doesn’t Feel That Uncomfortable Right Now

Glassio is the Queens, NY-based new wave/dream-pop project from Irish-Iranian songwriter-producer Sam R. His debut album For The Very Last Time will be released summer 2020.

Glassio

The Way We Get By: Glassio Has Been Taking It Easy

Day Wave is the project of Jackson Phillips. His EP Crush is out 4/24 via PIAS Recording.
(Photo Credit: Daniel Topete)

Day Wave

The Way We Get By: Day Wave Has Been Revisiting The Microphones

Juiceboxxx is an American artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His forthcoming LP is slated for release on Dangerbird Records in early 2020.
(Photo Credit: Brad Dececco)

Juiceboxxx

JUICEBOXXX RECOMMENDS: Old Concert Footage

Zully Adler is the Shorenstein Research Fellow at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he writes on underground and alternative art in California. 
Adler runs the Goaty Tapes cassette label and its vinyl and book imprint House Rules, which will publish the forthcoming Charlie Nothing: State of the Ding.