Ahead of the James Welch Native Lit Festival in Missoula, a conversation with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain on Welch’s poetry, the writers he inspired, and the lineage the festival protects.
Scott Mathson walked into Missoula’s oldest recording studio looking for a way back to music. He ended up buying the joint — and inheriting four decades of Montana sound.
Devon Lawler didn’t plan to become the fresh pasta guy. Then he read a book, bought an Italian noodle extruder, and sold out the Missoula Farmers Market.
From Crow Nation teenagers channeling Nirvana to a Missoula neo-soul collective and Livingston surf-rockers, independent Montana artists just dropped new releases to stock your summer soundtrack.
