VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Musician: MY SILENT BRAVERY Video Feature:  “Girl You Think You Know” My Silent Bravery’s lead singer/writer Matthew Wade Confronts Social Media Pressures Facing Young Women In recent song “Girl You Think You Know” and new single “18,” Wade focuses on being comfortable with your true self—letting go of the perception of others, being happy with your own identity and not being afraid to own... 

NATALIE MAINES A Chick stops whistling Dixie to rock Cali with Ben Harper Dixie Chicks fans might be surprised that Natalie Maines chose a rock direction for her solo album debut, Mother, but for the Texas native it was all about getting back to her roots. “Anything but country music was what I listened to growing up,” says the 13-time Grammy winner. “It was all pop, rock and R&B.” Maines recorded Mother at Ben Harper’s L.A. studio,... 

  FOLK FORWARD How a sound born of tradition is thriving in the modern day   By Peter Cooper It’s the other “F” word. And like its more obscene counterpart, it means different things to different people in different contexts. In the 1950s, it was sweater-vested political subversives. Later, it was shape-shifting musical revolutionaries and introspective singer-songwriters. It has been used to describe troubadours who specialize in journalistic...