Bowling Green alternative country band The Josephines were awarded an APPY Award for Album of The Year in April. The band took home the honor for their excellent 2021 debut LP Appalachian Mountain Blues. Here’s an excerpt from a review Fringe published on Appalachian Mountain Blues: Like the best writers, Tabor knows his community and his Kentucky roots all too well. On the record he dispenses ugly truths that came the result of a Bible Belt upbringing, and he oscillates between finding his homeplace vexing and endlessly charming. “Appalachian Mountain Blues” mines addiction and poverty, captu ..read more

Atlanta-based songwriter Jordan Reynolds has released a handful of EPs and one LP under the moniker Rose Hotel. Reynolds, who spent much of her youth as a musician in Bowling Green, recently announced an Indiegogo campaign to fund her sophomore album. Rose Hotel has been a longtime favorite of this blog and hands down is one of the hardest working musicians I’ve ever interviewed. Here’s a clip from an article that never materialized. I was trying to be some sort of Lester Bangs knockoff following Jordan around in Chicago before an Angel Olsen concert. Ah, youth. Jordan Reynolds, who spent much ..read more

Bowling Green songwriter Jamie Resch debuted track “An Island Between” in March, an offering from forthcoming release “A Lick and a Promise”. The song’s rollicking pulse softens the blows delivered by Resch’s slyly wistful lyricism. The passage of time stabs like an arrow to the knee. A shipwrecked love finds the respective parties floating further apart as storm clouds hover darkly. Solace becomes a shorebound ocean current beckoning a doomed voyager home. “Ain’t it funny how a beating heart just feels like sorrow / When your love has got nowhere to go,” Resch sings. “An Island Between” can b ..read more

Rose Hotel, the project of Atlanta musician Jordan Reynolds, traces its origins to her time as a resident and lively participant of the Bowling Green, Kentucky music scene. The project has evolved from lofi bedroom recordings to the fully formed sonic production that defined her lush 2019 debut LP “I Will Only Come If Its A Yes”. While she’s evolved sonically and matured as a storyteller, gutsy vulnerability and three chords and the truth authenticity have been a trademark of a Rose Hotel track since the project’s inception. Reynolds’ transition from Bowling Green to Atlanta, all the raw nerv ..read more

Country singer-songwriter Morgan Wade is set to release her debut album Reckless on March 19. On recent single “Wilder Days,” Wade’s scratchy twang queries an older love interest for details from his youth. “You said you hate the smell of cigarette smoke / You only use to smoke when you drank,” the Floyd, Virginia resident sings on the glossy country-rock anthem . The track’s nostalgic pining is Springsteen-esque, as Wade remains fascinated by the ways that memories of adolescence continue to have incredible power for adults. “I wish I’d known you in your wilder days,” she sings, lamenting a t ..read more

Fringe compiled a list of our favorite tracks of 2022 so far. Australian indie star Julia Jacklin returns with a stomping neon anthem that finds her pining for a former version of herself she fears too far gone. Angel Olsen sits at her piano and yearns for a semblance of home that no longer exists. Phoebe Bridgers talks to her houseplants and slowly sheds her darkly cynical worldview in the wake of her new love. A pair of West Kentucky voices deliver arguably the best material of their careers. S.G. Goodman stares down unrequited love and the gnarly bruises left in its aftermath. Kelsey Waldon ..read more

Rose Hotel, the project of Atlanta musician Jordan Reynolds, traces its origins to her time as a resident and lively participant of the Bowling Green, Kentucky music scene. The project has evolved from lofi bedroom recordings to the fully formed sonic production that defined her lush 2019 debut LP “I Will Only Come If Its A Yes”. While she’s evolved sonically and matured as a storyteller, gutsy vulnerability and three chords and the truth authenticity have been a trademark of a Rose Hotel track since the project’s inception. Reynolds’ transition from Bowling Green to Atlanta, all the raw nerv ..read more

Bowling Green alternative country band The Josephines were awarded an APPY Award for Album of The Year in April. The band took home the honor for their excellent 2021 debut LP Appalachian Mountain Blues. Here’s an excerpt from a review Fringe published on Appalachian Mountain Blues: Like the best writers, Tabor knows his community and his Kentucky roots all too well. On the record he dispenses ugly truths that came the result of a Bible Belt upbringing, and he oscillates between finding his homeplace vexing and endlessly charming. “Appalachian Mountain Blues” mines addiction and poverty, captu ..read more

The Josephines released long-awaited LP “Cocaine or Cowboy” April 20, the follow-up to the band’s 2017 debut EP “Sober Up”. The characters brought to life throughout the Josephines’ songbook range everywhere from vengeful miscreants to haunted truckers to small-town folk constantly shadowboxing with their demons. We are introduced to firebrand women who chug whiskey and brandish switchblades, heartstricken widowers, and aspiring musicians still tending bar and at wits end after ten years in Nashville. “Don’t fall in love with cocaine or cowboys, they’ll take all your money and leave you alone ..read more

Country singer-songwriter Morgan Wade is set to release her debut album Reckless on March 19. On recent single “Wilder Days,” Wade’s scratchy twang queries an older love interest for details from his youth. “You said you hate the smell of cigarette smoke / You only use to smoke when you drank,” the Floyd, Virginia resident sings on the glossy country-rock anthem . The track’s nostalgic pining is Springsteen-esque, as Wade remains fascinated by the ways that memories of adolescence continue to have incredible power for adults. “I wish I’d known you in your wilder days,” she sings, lamenting a t ..read more