Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners

Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners are a folk-rock group based in Bozeman, MT consisting of longtime friends Mitch Cutts, Nic Haughn, and Jakob Ervin. The trio started RMCM as high schoolers back in 2017, and since then they’ve used RMCM as a platform to independently release music and create art.

The Brazen Youth

Eagle, Idaho is the namesake of The Brazen Youth’s new album, but might have well remained an anonymous collection of subdivisions to the band and their listeners if not for a fateful phone call. The band was on the road with a few days off in the suburb nestled in the Boise Foothills when they got word the father of band member Charles Dahlke had passed away. They had all been living with the elder Dahlke for the past couple of years, so the news hit them collectively as the loss of a certain foundation of the group.

 The Brazen Youth’s early releases are colored and influenced by a kind of wonder and expectation preceding the new experiences and adventures that lay ahead of them in life. Eagle, Idaho on the other hand, sees the group stepping through the looking glass into adulthood, perhaps a little sooner and suddenly than one might hope to, and carries the weight of the ensuing years and life events that followed.

 Making peace with the internal and external chaos of life can seem daunting, but The Brazen Youth create a world with sound and lyricism that while certainly not answering life’s great questions, goes a long way to setting the listener more at ease with not knowing. The Brazen Youth are a band formed within the otherworldly vacuum of the 300-year-old Ashlawn Farm, located in Lyme, Connecticut and consisting of Nic Lussier, Charles Dahlke and Micah Rubin.