I had the opportunity to sit in a home recording studio in the basement of Ben Ryan and Kyle Grim of Dogwood Tales, while sipping on some piping hot echinacea tea to talk about their new album Too Hard to Tell. Their single “Too Hard To Tell” is available today. Get ready to fall into a nostalgia that you may not have lived yourself. Chez Goodspeed of GrizzlyGround: Introduce yourselves. Ben: My name is Ben Ryan, I play in Dogwood Tales. I write some music with Kyle, I write

“Human Bruise” is the RVA based band, Antiphons' recent release off of their forthcoming album Groan. “Human Bruise” is also a song that is easy to play on repeat, while all perception of time seemingly escapes. There’s just something hypnotizing about those weepy vibrations that flow from some melty guitar riffs. This track opens with a droning “you f-ck like an only child”, which, at first, may warrant hitting pause-- …and rewinding the song back a few seconds. “You f-ck li

Zooanzoo, or more locally known as Zach Williams, based out of Harrisonburg, VA, released a new single recently, titled “Say it Softly”. The track begins ominously, with the first eleven seconds of the song introducing a soft piano track, overlaid by a record scratching and the muffled words of a little girl talking to someone. The little girl’s ‘cameo’ fades into Zooanzoo’s soft, almost whispered vocals, as he sings about wanting the world to be “a safer place for ‘you’ and

Formed by Harrisonburg locals, Kyle Grim and Ben Ryan create the rich folk sounds of Dogwood Tales. Having just released their first five track self-titled EP, in addition to touring soon, they are well on their way to making their mark in folk-goodness territory. In a general sense, Dogwood Tales reminds me of The Decembrists with their similar story-telling lyrics and folk nature. However, Dogwood Tales differentiates themselves from another folk band such as the Decembrist