April's Indie Writing: New Horizons!

 Hey folks,


I'm excited to announce that I have been accepted as to Indie Shuffle as a contributing writer! Indie Shuffle is a human-curated indie music streaming site and blog: https://www.indieshuffle.com/. I'll be posting on there a lot more than Indie Cacophony, although this site will continue! As always, thanks for reading.

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