by David Menconi “It Doesn’t Change Anything,” the most recent single and video from the new album from Chapel Hill’s Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, is a heavy song that… Read More →
Down on Copperline
Soteria Shepperson-A genuinely indefatigable “artivist”
–Article by David Menconi If you have yet to encounter Soteria Shepperson, it’s certainly not because she hasn’t been out and about. A genuinely indefatigable “artivist,” Shepperson claims to identify… Read More →
From Venezuela to Hillsborough, by way of Brooklyn: Meet Mango Martinez
–Article by David Menconi An itinerant artist and musician, Orlando “Mango” Martinez has lived, toured and worked all over the world while making art and music. Nowadays he lives in… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Tift Merritt & “The Spark”
–Article by David Menconi While Tift Merritt has had a great career as a Grammy-nominated musician and multi-media artist, you wouldn’t exactly call her ahead of her time – until… Read More →
“Out of chaos, music will find a way” with Joe Troop
At the beginning of last year, the way forward for Joe Troop seemed clear. He and his Argentina-based “Latin Grass” band Che Apalache had a Grammy-nominated album out (produced by… Read More →
