In a career as unscripted and surprising as his songs, Robyn Hitchcock keeps moving forward, plumbing the depths of the human psyche and marrying what he finds with melodies vaguely reminiscent of those pouring out of the transistor radio playing in your dreams....
“Talk about your amps! Talk about all the bands you’re in!” A Swallow Hill Music staffer playfully needled Aaron McCloskey to brag on himself, even just a little, one recent afternoon. Aaron just smiled and gave her a look of understated mortification. Only when asked...
“I really wanted to be a singer, I’ve worked on this my whole life.” Singing. It’s where so many aspects of Swallow Hill Music teacher Deborah Collins’ life come together. She’s spent her life singing. From “punk” bands in high school, to the reason she went back to...