Phillip-Michael Scales is a local singer-songwriter who goes by Briar Rabbit. He has just released his latest album, “From Your Bones,” which is as literate and soulful a pop album as its predecessors ...

Influences: Bill Withers, Elliot Smith, “and a lot of other ones. I think I fit between the two of them, mostly. I’m definitely influenced by show tunes, jazz and indie rock.” What’s in a name?: ...

The guy who frequents Ukrainian Village coffee shop Atomix is much more than a guy named Phil. He’s actually Phillip-Michael Scales, a Ukrainian Village resident and frontman of Briar Rabbit, a local ...

He may be B.B. King’s nephew, but don’t expect Briar Rabbit (known to close friends as Phillip-Michael Scales) to follow in his uncle’s bluesy footsteps. A self-described “thought-pop” musician, ...

Grounded in a firm belief that pop music and intellectual lyrics are not mutually exclusive, Briar Rabbit coined the phrase "Thought-Pop" to describe his sound. "A lot of times [pop music] feels like ...

This Saturday, Oct. 12, at 2 PM, we'll broadcast a recent performance by Briar Rabbit on "Java Blend." Ben Kieffer will chat with Briar throughout the broadcast to find out more about making his first ...

Acoustic folk singer/songwriter Phillip-Michael Scales, better known as Briar Rabbit, is a thinking person’s artist. Take his stage name, for instance. When taken at face value, it’s just a cool name ...

Briar Rabbit is the solo project of Phillip-Michael Scales, a singer/songwriter now based in Chicago. His latest release is Briar Rabbit and The Company You Keep. It’s a collection of well crafted pop ...

will perform in Kalamazoo later this month. Briar Rabbit is the folk-pop songwriter Phillip-Michael Scales who was raised in Detroit. He released his new album, "From Your Bones," on Jan. 21 and it ...