What’s the story behind your latest song/album? Well, SIVA had been releasing only singles since 2021, 6 in total,  and when that cycle ended with Daylight in early 2024, we decided to take on an EP instead, a collection of 4 songs that go well together, and at the same time are very different in […]

What’s the story behind your latest song/album? The album, “Buying Into the Hype,” was originally intended as kind of a faux-Beatles record, believe it or not, in the vein of the Rutles or Utopia’s “Deface the Music.” It wasn’t intended as anything particularly ambitious at all. Then, as things tend to do, it sort of […]

What’s the story behind your latest song/album? As I was writing the record, the idea of ‘lines’ kept cropping up. I loved the crossover the word has; lifelines, timelines, the lines we deliver in conversation, the boundaries we set as lines we will and won’t cross. ‘Actors’ is the moment of hesitation within my debut […]

How has your creative process evolved over the years? Charming Scars is a relatively new band, which started in August 2024, and there is definitely a different approach from a songwriting perspective with this band compared to previous bands. Probably the biggest difference was that there was a goal to be able to play every […]

What’s the story behind your latest song/album?  The political situation in the U.S. is distressing. The lack of leadership, the rampant hate, the mistruths, the cult-like blind following the blind. I was choosing from 3-4 songs I had already written, but the universe was speaking to me and guided me to write Sun is Going […]

What’s the story behind your latest song/album? “Burning” came out of a time when I was really scared and angry about a lot of things in my own life and in the world. One part of that was a doctor with a particular knack for making me feel like a broken piece of machinery. That […]