Music Review: Shaun Munday

written by Tamara Styer

SHAUN MUNDAY’S SELF-TITLED debut solo album is a tribute to oldschool blues singers accompanied by Munday’s exquisite acoustic songwriting using only one instrument. He is a bass aficionado, making the guitar sing rhythmically as if it were three instruments in one. 

Music Review: 12X12: A Springfield Missouri Compilation

written by Tamara Styer

A FEW MONTHS BACK, Wee Rock Records sent us some vinyl records to review in the mag. Time to buy a record player, we said, and headed out to choose our cool new music-listening apparatus. 

LUSH at Bartique: Original Fears Launch

written and photographed by Leslie Tucker

IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN to LUSH at Bartique yet, now is the time to check it out!  LUSH at Bartique just celebrated their one year anniversary in downtown Springfield, Missouri with the launch of a new locally owned clothing line, Original Fears. Designer Caleb Schwien describes his brand as unisex streetwear, bodied in the Midwest with a heart beating in the coast.

Andrew Batcheller: Flights of Fantasy

written by Charles Goodin

IT'S THE SCENE'S UNAPOLOGETIC bleakness that first draws me in: a bird, perched pensively on a dry, weathered branch and framed only by the slightest hint of a wispy, blue dusk. As the creature's beady eye bores into mine, I begin to see the tableau as the solemn epilogue to a story of apocalyptic proportions — one in which the sole survivor of some world-rending disaster needs no words to indict my character.