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Evocative music can be some of the best. And musician Shannon Carey, who performs under the moniker Luray, has a particular knack for doing just that. Her songs feel welcoming, yet elusive, like a long-forgotten photograph you find at the bottom of a box, a memory that gets hazier with each passing year.
&#8220;My songs tell me what’s going on with me, like my unconscious trying to get my attention,&#8221; explains Carey, who had plenty to unravel in her life leading up to the recording of her sophomore full length, Dig. &#8220;My marriage broke up while I was writing this album and the songs started to speak to me about my relationship and what I was hoping for and holding onto. What I wasn’t letting myself acknowledge. I moved to Richmond and set to finishing the songs for the record. I wrote more songs about how it felt to lose, and how it felt to be starting over.&#8221;
Although Carey has called Richmond, Virginia home for a number of years, her music has an inescapable imprint of her Wisconsin upbringing. And it&#8217;s back in Eau Claire, Wisconsin that she set about recording the album, enlisting her brother Sean Carey to produce. &#8220;The band drove out to Wisconsin and met up with Sean and engineer Brian Joseph, who had just completed building his own studio, which he called The Hive. It&#8217;s in the woods and feels very &#8216;Northern Wisconsin&#8217; — feels like a little haven from the world.&#8221; The Hive became the perfect locale to capture such a personal collection of songs. &#8220;It’s hard to explain how intimate the recording process was, but it felt very insular and almost delicate. After the end of that relationship that had been so central, I felt a little fragile and obviously in transition. Sometimes you can hear something tentative in my vocals. I had been getting my new life together for the past year, but it still felt strange.&#8221;
The eleven songs that came to form Dig provide a stolen glance at a snapshot of Shannon Carey&#8217;s life, yet invite listeners into the story to explore for themselves. It also marks the closing of one chapter and the beginning of the next.
(Photo Credit: Jake Cunningham)

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Music

Spend Some Quality Time with Luray and S. Carey

Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt has amassed a cult following for his poetic, poignant lyrics. Performing solo almost exclusively, armed with just his voice, his acoustic guitar, and his acute commentary, Schmidt’s an authentic timeless troubadour, one man sharing his truth in the form of songs, unadorned and intimate. Schmidt has released three albums on Red House Records, including the critically acclaimed debut Instead The Forest Rose To Sing in 2009, the spare and intimate Man Of Many Moons in 2011, and culminating with the amorous duo album For Keeps with his partner, Carrie Elkin, in 2014. Schmidt returned to self-releasing his own music in 2016 with the album Owls, a mystical collection of ethereal allegories. Standard Deviation will be Schmidt’s ninth solo record.
(Photo Credit: Chris Carson)

Danny Schmidt

We Need A Better Word Than “Miscarriage”

Director Darren Lynn Bousman is best known for directing Saw II, III and IV. His latest film, St. Agatha, is now in theaters and On Demand / Digital HD through Uncork&#8217;d Entertainment. The Kansas native also directed the horror rock operas Repo! The Genetic Opera, The Devil&#8217;s Carnival and Alleluia! The Devil&#8217;s Carnival, as well as the horror movies 11-11-11, The Barrens and Mother&#8217;s Day, a remake of the classic 1980 movie.

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Film

How Fatherhood Changed Me as a Horror Director

Steven Sheil is a screenwriter and director. His first feature, Mum &amp; Dad, was released in 2008 and was described by Total Film as “one of the defining British horrors of its generation.” His second feature, the 2012 action-horror Dead Mine, was shot in Indonesia and starred an international cast. HBO Asia’s first original production, the film is distributed in the U.K. by eOne. He is also the co-writer of psychological drama Gozo, co-written and directed by Miranda Bowen for Bishop Films and due for release in 2016. He also works as a cinematographer, primarily with his wife, the artist and documentarian Jeanie Finlay, and is the co-director of the Mayhem Film Festival, based at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, U.K.

Steven Sheil

They Fuck You Up: Parents in Horror Films

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First and foremost, Talkhouse Contributing Writer Liam Wilson is a good vibe technician. He&#8217;s known to moonlight as an avid psychonaut and enjoys occasional visits with his worldly possessions in Philadelphia. He spends most of his time wandering Earth in an endless pursuit of a clearer understanding of all things bass-frequency related with his band the Dillinger Escape Plan. Follow him on: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/liamwilson">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/goodvibetech">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://instagram.com/liam_wilson">Instagram</a>.
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Liam Wilson

Liam Wilson (the Dillinger Escape Plan) Talks the Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Series and Mellowing His Way into Parenthood

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