Small Bills: Painting In New Colors

Small Bills: Painting In New Colors

By: Garrett Bethmann It’s hard to explain to others something that defies previous experience. How do you explain sound to the deaf? The plight of the religious disciple is to show people a path they’ve never traveled, promising transcendence to an eternal place...
The Gabbard Brothers: Respect The Hustle

The Gabbard Brothers: Respect The Hustle

By: Garrett Bethmann Zach Gabbard easily greets me over the phone from his little slice of paradise Howler Hills Farm, near Middletown, Ohio. He’d just got done an evening swim with his son in the waning days of summer. The farm acts as a creative and personal oasis...
Artist’s Palette: Japhy Riddle

Artist’s Palette: Japhy Riddle

By: Garrett Bethmann Artist’s Palette is a series in which we speak with the people who help shape the all-important visual side of the musical experience, from album and poster artists, to music video animators and directors, to stage designers and lighting...
Rolling The Dice with Gamblers

Rolling The Dice with Gamblers

By: Garrett Bethmann This life is nothing but one big craps game at a dilapidated casino, where you just throw your dice up against the wall and see what lands. Those little numbers have big consequences, and it’s mere whispers on the wind and a turn of the wrist that...
Zephaniah OHora: Big City Country

Zephaniah OHora: Big City Country

By: Garrett Bethmann There isn’t a more perfect example of art imitating life than in the case of Big Apple honky-tonker Zephaniah OHora.  OHora is a tall glass of water with a whiskey-neat baritone, practically tailor-made to wear a Candian tuxedo, sling a guitar...