Do you ever have those moments where your perspective zooms out for a second and you suddenly feel overwhelmed by the absurdity of things that usually feel normal? For example, you check the news, and instead of thinking “What ridiculous […]
Do you ever have those moments where your perspective zooms out for a second and you suddenly feel overwhelmed by the absurdity of things that usually feel normal? For example, you check the news, and instead of thinking “What ridiculous […]
This is how it happens: I have an idea for a song, I start working on it, and then it starts to get difficult. I have a good lyric, but I can’t find anything to rhyme with it. I have […]
In a recent column I wrote a bit about how much I love the structure of touring: it’s repetitive to the point of being ritualistic, and as a creature of habit, I like getting into a rhythm on tour. I […]
When I was 18, I showed up at Berklee College of Music as an experienced and confident performer whose recording experience mostly consisted of a USB microphone plugged into GarageBand. Four years later, when it came time to record my […]
Throughout my life, I’ve attended and performed at a number of music festivals. As a kid, my folk-duo parents would drag me and my sister to their festival gigs, and these days I’m performing with my band, Lula Wiles. When […]
I’m writing from a tent on an old fairgrounds somewhere in southwestern Maine. It’s getting dark – the last streaks of the sunset are still visible between the tree line and the crescent moon. A hundred feet to my left, […]
Your head nods … suddenly you find yourself drifting into a sea of musicians, thousands … performers and bands marching forward and back in hotel guestroom hallways. Setting up in hotel room after hotel room from the dark of night […]
I first saw Lula Wiles (then known as The Wiles; they had to change their name because it was already in use by another band) perform two years ago at the FreshGrass Festival as part of the Berklee bands segment […]
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