two brothers who travel the world making music

John Mark McMillan is something of an anomaly: an artist and Platinum-selling songwriter bending genres and defying categorization by carving out his own unique and independent path. With an ear for melody and a poet’s eye for metaphor, no topic has been off-limits. While each of his albums over the past decade have continued to explore new territory, it’s McMillan’s ability to give lyric and language to the human experience that many consider his greatest gift.

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Indie-Rock, Americana - Earnest songs for everyday people.

Brave Little Howl is from the DFW area in North Texas. The band was formed initially by Marc Atkinson and Billy Hale in 2015 in an apartment with two acoustic guitars.

THE BAND: Marc Atkinson - guitar; Billy Hale - vocals and guitar; Josh Miller - keys and bgvs; Cory Phifer - drums; Clay Friddle - guitar, xylophone, percussion and bgvs; Cole Risner - bass

Their first recording Make Your Heart Sweat EP was recorded in 2016 in Nashville with Buckley Miller and Michael John Scheuchzer, and released the following year. Over the next couple years the band found their sound: a kind of Wilco-meets-Indie-Rock-meets-the-Eagles sound.

Our Lives Aren't Movies, the band's first full-length album, was the result of finding and exploring that sound. The Album was recorded at Redwood Studio in Denton, TX over several sessions from Sept. 2017 through Feb. 2018. The producer was McKenzie Smith from the band Midlake, who has also worked with artists like St. Vincent and Sarah Jaffe. Joey McClellan, also of the band Midlake, was the engineer.

Audio recordings by mythologist Dr. Martin Shaw. They touch on a variety of areas - many circling around the relationship between myth and the living world - as well as what he calls 'Liminal culture'. Primarily a resource for students - please consider studying at our hedge school if you enjoy. Books, audio & art available at Cista Mystica.

The cake is a lie! The cake is a lie! The cake is a lie! The cake is a lie!

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