After decades of sitting out from the spotlight, revered singer-songwriter Eric Andersen shares his first music video. At a spry 75 years of age, Andersen has a world-worn depth in his stride that many folk artists could only hope to…
Usually, when a band bills themselves as a mixture of genres, the tighter those individual sonic influences can be interwoven, the better their swipe at innovation comes across. More typically than not, this means a closer-knit collective of, say, two…
In just a few years, Americana entrepreneur James Adkins has already bubbled near the top of the Midwestern music scene. Offer an ear to his music and it’s not hard to hear why that is. In Adkins is an unsuspectingly…
If there’s one thing Astral Cloud Ashes absolutely is not, it’s uninspired. Antony Walker, who heads up the project as well as occasionally blogs for Quantam AI, is no stranger to the world of noise and indie rock music, no.…
While she’s been touring coast-to-coast with Run Boy Run over the past decade, Rebekah Rolland is still a newfound Tucson treasure to the world at large. Although she hails from the desert, the songs adorning Seed & Silo often evoke images of…
Ghostly Beard exists to make a statement. How can you get any more folk than that? Like Americana duo Newspoke, not much more is known about Ghostly Beard beyond his music and his moniker. Artists that decide to produce their…
At the start, it’s easy to pass up on Melaku. It’s at first glance that he just seems like another singer-songwriter whose self-funded, produced, and released his debut EP for all of three people to entertain. Although, this is a…
Everyone knows and loves Regina Spektor’s ‘Samson’. Or, at the very least, they should. It seems like the singer-songwriter’s gorgeous and plaintive 2006 alt-folk wonder has inspired as many covers as it has television placements. The heartbreaking, sort-of biblical love…
Opening with one heck of a fiddle flourish, DocFell & Co. define their homegrown roots sound right out of the gate on ‘Tough’. The tune, which is featured on their forthcoming album, encapsulates all of the inner makings of a…
From its opening moments, Aya Maguire’s The Sandcastle King is instantly entrancing. It hasn’t been all that long since the Boulder singer-songwriter began turning out music, with her first EP (Fireflies) debuting last July. Yet, her newest output already feels leagues…