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Rough Mix Issue #23: Blood, sweat, and songwriters

Music The Low Anthem, "Blood and Altar" I don't know much about Providence, RI's The Low Anthem—I encountered them on...
May 23, 2020Aaron Rester
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Rough Mix Issue #22: The Wild Onion

Music Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, "Sunday Candy" This week's newsletter turns out to be a bit of a...
May 8, 2020Aaron Rester
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Rough Mix Issue #21: Swing Training

Music Casey Bill Weldon, "Guitar Swing" I'm guessing we could all use a pick-me-up these days, and there's no way this...
April 24, 2020Aaron Rester
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Rough Mix Issue #20: Live Streams and Slow Fades

Music John Prine, "Angel from Montgomery" John Prine, as probably everyone reading this will already be aware, died this week...
April 10, 2020Aaron Rester
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Rough Mix Issue #19: Pandemic at the Disco!

Music It's only been two weeks since the last newsletter, but that sure does seem like a very, very long...
March 27, 2020Aaron Rester
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Rough Mix Issue #18: Some welcome distractions

Music Adia Victoria, "Different Kind of Love" I keep seeing Nashville-based singer-songwriter Adia Victoria's style being described as "gothic blues,"...
March 13, 2020Aaron Rester
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My 2019 Mixtape

Last year was a pretty lousy year for a lot of people I know. Call it escapism, call it self-care,...
January 3, 2020Aaron Rester
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“Only the Stars” by The Long Farewells is now out

Last week, my latest album (and the second record on Beartrap Spring Records), The Long Farewells' Only the Stars was...
November 8, 2019Aaron Rester
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Music News: The Long Farewells and Beartrap Spring Records

Somehow, summer is almost over, and I've been neglecting this site even more than usual, though perhaps for better reasons...
September 22, 2019Aaron Rester
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Introducing “Rough Mix”

Back in 2017, when I released Americayana, I did so through a conjured-from-thin-air label I called Beartrap Spring Records (named after...
July 23, 2019Aaron Rester
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