These Subtle Sounds

A place for music lovers

Author: Matt Ruppert

  • New Music Friday 7.31.2020

    New Music Friday 7.31.2020

    Note from These Subtle Sounds: if you like something and you have the means, please pay for it beyond your chosen streaming services. Streaming services…

  • New Music Friday: 7.24.2020

    New Music Friday: 7.24.2020

    Note from These Subtle Sounds: if you like something and you have the means, please pay for it beyond your chosen streaming services. Streaming services…

  • New Music Friday: 7.17.2020

    New Music Friday: 7.17.2020

    We here at These Subtle Sounds have been working to navigate the new world we inhabit as best we can, trying to figure out what we can…

  • Finding a Way On the Darkest Road: Roll On by Water Liars

    Finding a Way On the Darkest Road: Roll On by Water Liars

    Barry Hannah wrote the sort of short stories that took something nearly prosaic and built it into something surreally shattering, brimming with edges of the…

  • Bridging the Digital Gap with Charm City Bluegrass

    Bridging the Digital Gap with Charm City Bluegrass

    A mere day after the festival should have ended, Charm City Bluegrass (and a bunch of wonderful co-hosts) held a Corona-era special Digifest live from…

  • Tribute to John Prine

    Tribute to John Prine

    When I still nipped at my parents’ heels, small enough to be childlike and old enough to want to not be, I discovered the unquiet…

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  1. Nice work. Stage lighting is difficult to deal with and these are really nice and sharp.

  2. An excellent first post, I cannot wait to see this bloom into something great. Follow your passion man

  3. It’s a privilege to watch your journey…..and your connection with the music can be seen in your work. I can’t…