Vinyl Tap Gets Outside: Fall 2023 Issue

Vinyl Tap Gets Outside

Smokey mountain campfires. Cicada season. Mulched leaves return to the earth under your hiking boots. Someone brings out an acoustic guitar or a battery powered radio. What do they play? What is the sound of a folk summer filtered through the misty mountain haze of nostalgia? The Fall 2023 issue of Vinyl Tap sets out to answer the call of the outdoors.

Whether you be a granola girl, a camp kid, or any kind of lakeside lover, bring your experience of the great outdoors to print. Writing in any way about music that embodies those ideals is encouraged: nostalgic, authentic, folky, acoustic, reminiscent, individualistic, or rejuvenating. Always welcome are discussions of music in nature, music about nature, or music defined by nature.

What would be on your camping playlist?

read it here:

Featured Articles:

My 6-Week, 23-State Road Trip by Talia Snyder Romero
Folk Country in Bhutan by Jak Roehrick
A Lesson in Vulnerability by Rheina Camacho
Big Sur and the Cedars of Nancy Carlen by Natalie Lopez

Including:

Reviews of albums by del water gap, Foo Fighters, slow pulp, p.j. harvey, mitski, animal collective, helena deland, nothing but thieves, alice phoebe lou, overmono, hozier, blur, spellling, slowdive, julie byrne, nick shoulders

Haiku inspired by the works of Dhani Harrison, Duran Duran, Jordana and TV Girl, Taylor Swift, boygenius, Dominic Fike, Mitski, Olivia Rodrigo, Addison Rae, The Rolling Stones, Free Range, Daffo, Sufjan Stevens, Blondshell, Samia

listen to the issue playlist