by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Live | The Milk Carton Kids @ Fox Theatre Tucson
When the Milk Carton Kids first emerged from Eagle Rock in 2011, it was from out of the ashes of two failed solo ‘careers’. Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale spent most of a decade attempting to find their footing amongst…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Watch | Wild Rivers – Howling [Live]
At times, the internet can provide such a swell of mad-hat information at once that you just need to step away from the laptop, wipe off your sweat, and sit back with a well-tailored book for a while. At other…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Max Subar – ‘Mr. Fate’
Chicago singer-songwriter Max Subar intends to create folk music that appeals to his midwestern roots. Planting his feet firmly into the earth and looking hopefully towards the sky, Subar is capable of inhabiting a song with the sort of hearth-made…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Christian Heath – One
Following the split of the aptly-named Christian Heath Band, the South African singer-songwriter has since moved on to produce work of his own. Velvet-covered pop defines the majority of his new EP, One, slinking in elements of Latin soul and rock…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | C.K. & the Rising Tide – American Romance
Taking cues from the likes of Springsteen and Petty before them, C.K. & the Rising Tide develop palatable Americana that just about anyone can sink their teeth into. It isn’t without its contemporary flair, of course, featuring reverb-friendly production that…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Skin & Bones – ‘Sending Love From Mars’
Following a move from their North Carolina home, violinist Peter Blackwelder and frontman Taylor Borsuk formed the folk duo Skin & Bones. Their humble beginnings saw them busking on Venice Beach to make their ends meet. Now, they’re set to…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Watch | James Labrosse Collective / Antonio Serrano – ‘Un Lugar’
James Labrosse is quickly becoming a notable force in the roots music world. Playing with the natural permutations of the jazz world, his compositions tend to push the envelope on genre-blending down successfully innovative new paths. His new album, Orange Night,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Watch | Wulijimuren – ‘Vast Sky’
One might be hard-pressed to find an album more personally developed than Wulijimuren’s Sun of UTC+8. Each guitar-centric composition tells a different life story based on the Mongolian immigrant’s own experiences both in his home country and the United States following…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with Atlanta folk band Heart Hunters
The latest in our FFS 5 interview series is Atlanta-based folk band, Heart Hunters. At the heart of this heartful group is an inimitable husband and wife duo consisting of singer-songwriters Brianna Blackbird and Drew de Man. They recently sat…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Suki Rae & the Company – Can’t Stop Now
At the center of folk music and roots music of all kinds is a spirit for social action. Wherein some of her contemporaries have shied away from carrying on such a passion for human rights in the stories they tell,…