Since their debut LP, Too Hard to Tell, dropped in early 2018, Dogwood Tales’ Kyle Grim and Ben Ryan have been writing, recording, and playing music from their home-base in Harrisonburg, VA and beyond near-endlessly. They initially followed up their…
Born in London and raised in Québec with a Persian background, Borza’s multifarious roots have all brought him back to the same base of connecting music to a synergistic spirituality. Labeling himself purely as a human representative of the earth,…
Since The High Divers first began making music in 2014, the Charleston has garnered considerable acclaim throughout South Carolina and have been working their way up the national rock scene along the way. Two LPs and four EPs later, they’re…
Aretha Franklin has undeniably left an immense mark on our modern culture with her art and activism. When she passed away last August, Jimbo Scott got to work on contemplating just how he would pay her tribute. Forgoing the typical,…
“The song is about letting go of things in your past that doesn’t serve you anymore,” says Dennis Hollstrom. “Sung and played as a healing relief with harmonies and a playful harmonica.” With a statement like that, Hollstrom sounds like…
While The Healing Day is to mark Dylan Perkons’ official debut, the Victoria, BC artist has been honing his craft in songwriting for years prior. The Healing Day, therefore, is more-so a poised artist finally stepping into the light. The…
Bifurcation in and of itself isn’t a rarity, but Suzie Brown’s story is a head-turner. Working as a part-time cardiologist at Nashville’s Vanderbilt, the singer-songwriter pursues a career in folk artistry during her off-time. The result of Brown’s committal to…
If ever an album was tailor-made for a road trip (and this road trip has to have the words ‘great’ and ‘American’ in its description), it’s Fruit Bat’s latest record, Gold Past Life. Eric D. Johnson – the project’s singer/songwriter –…
Husband and wife duo Zoe & Cloyd are not your typical roots outfit. With an aim to pave new trails in Appalachian music, their art is one that interweaves genres and moments in time as they sing through the voices…
Tsarzi, aka Sarah Sharp, produced one of my favourite albums from last year with The Last Decade of Love. The album is full of great songwriting, it’s clever, fun, theatrical and in the end, deeply melancholic. Sarah came into the…
You can’t turn on the television or flick through your social feeds without being bombarded with bad news. “It’s like the whole world’s got the blues,” Americana singer-songwriter Graham Stone feels that lyric in his bones, it’s an apt summation of his new…
In his time, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Kevin West has run the gamut on performance style. Starting somewhere around the blues, West’s nomadic studying habits saw him investing in the structures of hard rock, metal, jazz, and hip-hop along the way.…
The debut LP from Atlanta-based father-daughter folk duo The Brookses, Lucky Charm, is the culmination of a decades-in-the-making partnership, harnessing and presenting an energy that could only be borne from family bonds. Between Jim’s experience in the Atlanta music scene–having…
Ship & Sail made a splash in its respective Michigan scene following the release of their EP, From Seeds. Dedicated to Colin Haggerty’s late mother, his plaintive first studio cuts lived up to Ship & Sail’s tagline: “A little fun,…
Coming in on the first breeze of summer, Bird Songs of a Killjoy by Bedouine marks the second chapter in the recording career of Azniv Korkejian. Fittingly, the summer solstice is the perfect time to discover her music. As refreshing…
The Rose Valley Thorns find their inspiration in the region which they share a name with, nestled snugly within the mountains of Ojai, California. Not quite traditional bluegrass or the studied unconventionality of Chris Thile’s newgrass, the Ojai string band…
This week we have singer and multi-instrumentalist Clara Sanabras along with guitarist Mike Outram in session. The duo came into the studio to play us a song from Clara’s recent album Fugue to the Floating World. The album has a…
