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…
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,…
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…
While it’s been some time since Signe Marie Rustad once lived on the Norwegian farm upon which she was born and raised, her experiences there invariably shaped her into the artist that she has become. The forests, rivers, and fields…
Originally from Florence, Alabama, singer-songwriter Bailey White prides herself on her soul-laden Americana. It’s understandable—evocative of a contemporary spin on the Muscle Shoals style, there’s a lot to appreciate about the work that White is turning. Energizing White’s ascension in…
East London born and currently based in Paris, European artist Flora Hibberd is one of the foremost faces of a rising movement in contemporary folk music. Skating eloquently between influences like Joan Baez, Nick Cave, Jason Molina, and Cat Power,…
On his latest EP release, Anand Manivannan has gone on record to say, “Scars & Wounds is about those people in life you never outgrow, but carry with you as a mark on your soul, cursed with the scars that…
