Mike Hilleary is the author of On the Record: Music Journalists on Their Lives, Craft, and Careers. Over the years as a freelance music and culture writer he has written for such national publications and websites as GQ, Vanity Fair, Pitchfork, FLOOD, Under the Radar, Paste, and others. He lives in Northern Virginia.
Most visitors to The Huntington — one of the world’s most revered educational libraries and museums, and home to over 100 acres of botanical gardens — aren’t allowed to explore the landscape in the dead of night in a golf cart. Lucy Dacus and her band, however, were given a free pass to unwind and wander after being on stage. …
Lucy Dacus puts a lot of effort into crafting the lyrics of her songs, so she knows when someone in her show's audience is singing the wrong words back to her. "It happens way more often than I think people realize," she tells GRAMMY.com from her home in Philadelphia. "Sometimes it'll almost mess me up or I'll start laughing…
Video-chatting through her phone, Wichita-based singer/songwriter Jordana Nye shows me a tattoo she recently got on her right forearm. Written in small red ink is a single word: "numb." "I feel like I've just been kind of numb throughout the whole thing—like my tattoo," she says. Laughing at herself, almost as an aside, she quickly adds, "The decisions you make when you're…
