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S. Raekwon is a singer-songwriter based in New York, by-way-of Buffalo. His latest record, Steven, is out now on Father/Daughter.

S. Raekwon

Music

S. Raekwon and Tasha Trust Their Work

10 years ago this April, Chicago’s Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The RATBOY EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media. 
Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, last year’s critically-acclaimed Printer’s Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album’s February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.

Ratboys

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Talkhouse Weekend Playlist: On the Road with Petal

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Talkhouse Weekend Playlist: Summertime Driving with Hawai

Talkhouse Weekend Playlist: Trevor Sensor Gives Us Songs for All Seasons

The 2015 Talkies: Talkhouse Music Contributors’ Top Albums of the Year

Dan Wilson is an artist, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles who is best known as the lead singer of the band Semisonic, for which he wrote the Grammy-nominated smash “Closing Time” as well as other international hits. Since Semisonic, Dan has released two solo albums and has become a highly sought-after songwriting collaborator due to his songwriting, performing and production skills. He has written with and produced a diverse group of artists including  Adele, Dixie Chicks, Chris Stapleton, John Legend, The Head &amp; The Heart, Dierks Bentley, Florence Welch, Jim James, Keith Urban, Carol King, Spoon, Pink, Taylor Swift, and many others. Dan contributed three songs to Adele’s album, 21, including the hit “Someone Like You,” which he also produced, thus earning himself a Grammy for Album of the Year.  A few years earlier, Wilson took home a Song of the Year Grammy for “Not Ready to Make Nice,” one of six songs he co-wrote for the Dixie Chicks’ award-winning album Taking the Long Way. Wilson’s third solo album, Love Without Fear, was released in 2014. Recently, Dan co-wrote nine songs on Phantogram’s new album Three, including their single “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” (which he also co-produced). You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/DanWilsonMusic" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/danwilsonmusic/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and his website is <a href="http://www.danwilsonmusic.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson (Semisonic) Talks Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell

Dan Wilson (Semisonic) Talks Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens