Convinced as a kid that real people resided inside his family’s gaming console radio, Ashford was destined for the life in music and broadcasting. Initial album possessed: Bix Beiderbeck, on 78s, a Xmas present from his father. Well-traveled simply because an military brat, including a year or two in post-WW …

Thao & the Get Straight down Stay Down can be an indie pop music group led with the distinctive-voiced Thao Nguyen, whose songwriting tends toward the musically playful and lyrically heavy-hearted. Elevated in the town of Falls Cathedral, Virginia, Nguyen used your guitar and songwriting being a pre-teen, and was …