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“What It Took for Me to Stop Hiding My Politics in the South”: An Interview with the Founder of Y’all Ain’t Right

Over the past six months, my wife, Melissa, has been working on Y’all Ain’t Right, an umbrella site featuring our podcast, This Ain’t It, a blog, and products filled with Southern “sass, smarts, and social consciousness.” This project originated as her way to use her talents to voice her opposition to the atrocities we see enacted around us on a daily basis. It also arose … Read More “What It Took for Me to Stop Hiding My Politics in the South”: An Interview with the Founder of Y’all Ain’t Right

Grimy and Dirty, Why I Love He Is Legend

Heavy and dirty. That’s how I describe North Carolina’s He Is Legend, a band I’ve been listening to for, sheesh, around seventeen years at this point. Whenever I hear them, I either think about a hot, dirt driven festival tent with the heat from all of the attendees packed underneath the tarp causing condensation on the ceiling and that sweaty mess dripping, periodically down … Read More Grimy and Dirty, Why I Love He Is Legend