Current and Past Issues of PureHoney

Published on March 25th, 2025

Ever since streaming took over for CD’s, it’s been hard to find an album I’m  willing to hear over and over again. When the entirety »

Published on March 24th, 2025

When midwesterners Uncle Tupelo split up in 1994, ending a brief but noteworthy run as avatars of alt-country, what happened after that was normal, even »

Published on March 3rd, 2025

Colored by Grief After an unimaginable loss, Shannon Shaw is “alchemizing the pain.” Band life is often a slog with long drives, takeaway meals, and »

Published on March 2nd, 2025

Though formed way back in 2017, Austin, Texas’ Being Dead have just two full-length albums to their name. But these LPs have arrived in quick »

Published on February 18th, 2025

Select audiences are currently obsessed with alternative adult contemporary easy listening; consider it the Great American Songbook for Generation X and elder millennials. Bands including »

Published on February 17th, 2025

Though the low-volume singer-songwriter known as Iron & Wine has called many places in the South home — Virginia, the Carolinas, Texas, Tallahassee — it »

Published on February 16th, 2025

I know I heard Violent Femmes before I stumbled on an abandoned cassette of their 1983 self-titled debut masterpiece sitting in a boom box at »

Published on February 11th, 2025

If you were lucky enough to be of college age in the 2010s, you were lucky enough: synth pop filled the airwaves and your iPod »

Published on January 12th, 2025

It wasn’t going to be easy for the “Wipeout Gang.” In fact, it was gonna be nonsense — pure malarkey, if you will — if »

Published on January 12th, 2025

The Alabama that gave us Hank Williams, Wilson Pickett, Sun Ra and Gucci Mane is not “The South will rise again” version of that sweet »

Published on January 11th, 2025

Some bands form, make an impact, and call it a day, having said what they needed to say, leaving fans with broken hearts and great »

Published on January 11th, 2025

It has to be exciting for a musical act that’s barely a year old to get a song placed in a feature film. Now imagine that »