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Design Update

A Growing Archive of Visual Ideas

This space is becoming an ever-growing home for my design work: a place to share selected projects, visual experiments, brand concepts, music-world materials, and the ideas behind them.

Right now, only a few featured…

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New cover single: Hold My Horses OUT NOW! Exclusively on EVEN

My first solo cover song, Hold My Horses, is here!
The EVEN instant-access pre-order opens TODAY.  Once you pre-order, you get the whole track right away.  The high-resolution lossless file arrives on release day, July 9, when the full single…

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International Women’s Day, Radio Herstory’s 2nd Birthday, and a Little Yellowhammer in Pink

This year, International Women’s Day landed right on top of a lot of real‑life gravity for me. I didn’t host a big takeover or a week‑long campaign as I might’ve liked. Instead, I did one tiny, very Radio Herstory thing…

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Bands of Ben Killen & his Art: the Grand Prospect, Proud Pair of Thieves, RMR, LTF & more!

Primarily two acts, both NYC/Brooklyn-based bands, shaped a the largest part of who I am as an artist today: the Grand Prospect and Proud Pair of Thieves. This post is a little ode to both of them for helping…

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My Story: From MSL to Your Screen

If you haven’t already, please join my Blues & Breakfast Club, it’s where I share all my best stuff + members get exclusive merch, discounts, mixes & more!  Keep reading for a taste of what only members usually get. Join…

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Introducing: Footlight Favorites & Ben’s Blues & Breakfast Club!

A fresh start for my little corner of the music world

For a long time I’ve wanted a proper home for all the “little things” that orbit my music—cards, prints, oddball artifacts, and small objects with stories behind them. I’ve…

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the Broken Pennies Project: A Small, Gigantic, Seemingly Insignificant Invitation

It’s been a minute since I’ve written here.

Like a lot of independent artists, I got pulled into the tornado of press releases, social posts, and building my new Footlight Favorites online store, and the blog quietly slid to…

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Welcome to My New Online Home!

Y'all wanna know a lil’ secret?  For years, I’ve singlehandedly built and maintained my own websites, tweaking code, troubleshooting issues, making sure everything stayed up and running, most of the time, that is!  It's been a rewarding effort—but also a…

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Breaking the Mold

Launching an Online Country Radio station to Honor Women: As a songwriter, musician, and entrepreneur, my journey in the music industry has been both rewarding and challenging, but throughout all the ups-and-downs, nothing has both disappointed and disillusioned me…

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