Current and Past Issues of PureHoney
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Though the low-volume singer-songwriter known as Iron & Wine has called many places in the South home — Virginia, the Carolinas, Texas, Tallahassee — it »
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 »
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 »
It wasn’t going to be easy for the “Wipeout Gang.” In fact, it was gonna be nonsense — pure malarkey, if you will — if »
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 »
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 »













