2025 marked the seventh year of the Bourbon & Beyond festival in Louisville, with an expanded footprint and an impressive array of artists from the past and present. It turned out to be one of the best festival experiences of the year. Continuing our conversations started at Newport Folk Festival earlier this summer, we sat down with artists like Gin Blossoms, 10,000 Maniacs, Old 97’s, Dawes, Lake Street Dive, and Dani Rose to find out what they are most proud of in 2025, what routines they prio...

The Shaky Knees Festival moved to its new home in Piedmont Park in Atlanta for its 12th year. The new location welcomed well known groups like 4 Non Blondes and Devo and smaller acts like the Stews who experienced some of their biggest crowds yet on the Peachtree Stage. We sat down with some of the artists to find out what helps them with self care when life gets tough, what they are most proud of in 2025, and what special tradition or ritual they perform when they know they are about to go out...

The Newport Folk Festival might be most famous for Bob Dylan going electric in 1965, but every year it continues to surprise and delight—and sells out before the artists are even announced. It’s a smaller fest, held on the grounds of the Ft. Adams State Park in Rhode Island, and it has thrived over the years due to its culture of openness and being together, all for the love of the music. This year’s iteration was no exception. We sat down with the artists to find out their thoughts on life, goa...

In a down year for narrative films, documentaries ruled with revealing and inspiring stories at the annual movie marathon in Park City, Utah.

This year our favorite narrative experience at Sundance wasn’t a movie at all. It was eight episodes of Hal & Harper, the new show from wunderkid Cooper Raif, who produced, wrote, directed, and acted in the series. Raiff has become a Sundance favorite in a very short period of time, beginning with his debut Shithouse (2020) and continuing with 2022’s Cha Cha Real Smooth, co-starring Dakota Johnson. The multi-hyphenate joined us recently to discuss this newest project, what makes Mark Ruffalo gre...

Early in our Sundance journey this year, we discovered one of the experiences that would be one of our favorite of the entire fest – Meera Menon’s zombie flick Didn’t Die. It’s got its fair share of exciting chases, grisly zombie killings, and harrowing situations, but it’s also got some things that many zombie films don’t. The human drama feels real and lived-in, and the tone shifts nimbly from dramatic, to comedic, to adrenaline-fueled and back. It’s an impressive achievement for Menon and her...