2025 was a rough year in many respects. I suspect further elaboration is not required, but needless to say such a year was ornamented with tragedy in a way many will be eager to move beyond. Velvet Velvet released an album last spring entitled "All Falls Apart," which was met with local enthusiasm at its release show at Omaha's Slowdown. A midwest tour soon followed, during which Velvet played with friends old and new, to people many and few, and amid times painful and true.

After a run of Summer shows for Velvet, the year is about to come to a close at Reverb Lounge November 11. Velvet will be joining Wedding...

Just how change is life's only constant, how storms only disperse rather than simply end, how a train cannot stop all at once without...

The sheets of ice have melted off of the streets of the soggy Midwest and the chrysanthemums and carnations begin their ascent toward the...