Mostly Midwest
Mostly Midwest is a blog with its crosshairs on the midwestern music scene, featuring profiles, interviews, reviews, photos, videos, and more.
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The Nothing
by The Last Dinosaur
Jamie Cameron conveys heartbreak and loss with violins, acoustic plucking, tambourine beats, and whispered lyrics.
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Raised in Iowa and Kentucky, Bathgate makes epic, indie-tinged folk tunes inspired by travels, and recalling the great and wild outdoors.
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Lovely and stirring songs based around feather-light acoustic guitar and Calvert’s tender, whisper-soft vocals
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Hotel Landifornia
by Fuzzy Jones
Swooping, pristine folk-adjacent songs with bright guitars and soothing melodies that quietly entrance.
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Water's Here In You
by Babehoven
Babehoven returns with another record of indie folk songs about love, connection, and the fragility of human relationships.
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The songs on Babehoven's newest album approach grief and loss with humor and rage.
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Westward, to Nowhere
by Ian McCuen
This sweet, mournful “loose concept” album from folk artist Ian McCuen tracks a journey across the bleak landscape of American life.
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