Sarah Shafey is a Renaissance Woman with a capital T. That ‘T’ could stand for ‘Talented.’ Or ‘Thirsty.’ Or ‘Transcendent.’ Each of the three ‘T’s are equally fitting; yet they only begin to describe her jacktress-of-many-trades persona. Sarah Shafey is a producer and engineer who runs her own recording studio called Squeaky Clean Records. She’s a deft interviewee; her “Shafey’s Palace” webisodes are as much entertaining as they are insightful. In many-a-photograph, she’s a chameleon whose ability to constantly reinvent herself will leave you breathless. She helps manage a creative …

A clever songwriter with a classically divine voice Toronto, Canada’s Emma-Lee spins songs of mass seduction on her debut album, Never Just A Dream. Built from ambivalent tales of heartbreak and redemption that everyone who has loved has gone through, the songs are like sonic submersibles, delving their way into the parts of you that make you tick. The catchy lyrics and osmotic melodies follow you and before you know it you’re bopping right along.
The luscious landscape of “That Sinking Feeling” sets the proper mood for what you’re going to …

“Come for the breasts. Stay for the heart.”
That’s the tagline to Katie West’s website. Find yourself exploring the site one minute, and an hour later, eyes all bloodshot, mouth still ajar, you’ll see the tagline fitting. West, a photographer from Windsor, Canada is not only not afraid to show either—her breasts or her heart—she’s adept at intertwining the two with an ease that is equally admirable as it is poetic. Through an extensive—and impressive—collection of self-portraits (though not her sole focus, self-portraits are her specialty) you see a gamut of …

In Fall From Grace Lindi Ortega has created what could just be the quintessential album of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of life as an Indie singer. Chock full of promise that borders at times on brilliance, the album is a testimony to never giving up and never giving in. From the first verse of the album’s opener, “Stumble and Fall”, where Ortega sings, “Lately I’ve been contemplating/Leaving all of this behind/There’s too much worry on my mind/Everyday my heart is breaking/Something’s always on the line/And I’m always racing against …

In a radio world of shrill and shit, finding something of substance is like finding the needle in a Goliath-sized haystack. It seems it’s easier to win the lottery than to find something real to listen to; something with emotion, and substance, that tells a story of that place you’ve been to and couldn’t quite put your finger on, or forget. But that place you’ve been looking for the road map to for as long as you can remember.
For me, I was sitting in a hotel room in Portland, Maine, …