On almost every last Sunday of the month throughout the year, you will find P.D. Ronstadt & the Company bringing their southwestern blend of blues, folk, and rock to Tucson’s Monterey Court. Predating the Company was Ronstadt Generations, a band…
In Tucson, Little House of Funk is a staple of the dance band scene. Frontwoman Connie Brannock and her band of consummate musicians never cease in lighting the stage alight wherever and whenever they’re playing. Last July’s show at Monterey…
Easy to categorize as the “Dutch Bonnie Prince Billy”, Tonnie aka ‘Broeder’ Dieleman has ventured into a career of his own, made of strong asceticism and unrelenting musical research. These are ingredients that place him among a restricted circle of…
The career of Dawn Landes hasn’t run in a straight line. She has always gone where the spirit moved her, never making the safe choice. That would explain why she released Covers, an EP of tunes by Bruce Springsteen, Tom…
Friday, July 20, 2018 In a light drizzle, Chicago’s own The Curls took to the stage at 1 p.m. Blending everything from the B-52s to Frank Zappa, this five-piece band didn’t even notice the weather as they played with abandon. Throwing out…
If Low’s last album, 2015’s acclaimed Ones and Sixes, saw them slip off their slowcore shackles, Double Negative feels like a near-detonation of all that’s gone before. As the band moved into their third decade, a sense of consolidation surrounded…
If there is one thing you can learn from Loren Cole, it’s to question everything. The singer-songwriter came of age in the digital world, but even she finds the whole social media landscape a bit exhausting. Her debut album, For the Sake of…
The Good Morning Nags’ new EP, No Damn Good, just goes to show that ‘short’ often does mean ‘sweet’. At the very least, it sure does in this instance. The two songs that decorate its quaint halls assure listeners of that.…
Around this time last month, John Smith dropped the first tune from off of a forthcoming, soon-to-be-officially-announced album. ‘Willy Moore’ is an old-time American folk classic of uncertain origins, likely to have been written sometime during the early 1900s. Smith…
At the end of a very painful breakup, Lizzie Weber harnessed her emotions in a set of songs that were too painful to perform. Now, some four years later, the scars have lost much of their sting. The results found…
When Chuck Whyard hits the stage, he becomes the electrifying Americana artist, C-Wired. A free-wheeling mystic capable of producing powerful, tenacious grooves, he and his band develop a multifarious collection of songs for their debut EP, Omega. Washed with lush production…
Our new session with The Amazing Devil is something a bit different, and a bit special. The last time we recorded with the band we set up in an actor’s club in Soho. But the band are always looking to…
Few songwriters make as excellent a use of open air as Devin Sinha. The Seattle artist is still promoting material from off of his latest album, last year’s Our Fathers Were Lions, and for good reason—it’s bloody great. Capitalized by spacious,…
Mitch Bradford is a contemporary artist who appreciates the warm minimalism of vintage folks and roots rock. Taking a page from the likes of Jackson Browne and Neil Young, his style is unvarnished, conversational, and from the heart. Ergo, it…
Those of you who follow the For Folk’s Sake sessions will already be excited about Ben Somers’ new record Poor Stuart after he popped by to perform ‘Life On The Road. Now we can offer up the premiere of the…
With a vinyl release in just four days and a digital one soon to follow on 21 Sept., Katie Barbato is sharing the title track of her forthcoming EP with For Folk’s Sake today. Accompanying it is a gorgeous video…
This week’s session comes from Ben Somers, playing a song from his new album Poor Stuart which is out on the 7th September. Ben is involved in multiple musical projects, playing various styles and instruments, and the album incorporates elements…
