Ajay Mathur may not be a household name, but he sure knows how to roll with the best of them. Born in India, Mathur began putting in his dues around the 70s in popular venues throughout his home country. It…
Album | Ajay Mathur – Little Boat
Author: Jonathan Frahm
Video Premiere | Sam Levin – ‘First World Problems’
With charming lyricism and an irreverent delivery, rising indie rocker Sam Levin’s ‘First World Problems’ feels like a recipe for success. Coming from off of his upcoming sophomore album, I Am, Levin’s single recalls a time where poppy hooks met world-conscious…
Album Premiere | Brie Capone – If I Let You In
Asheville Americana artist Brie Capone is a multifaceted singer-songwriter whose tunes are tailor-made to fit any mood. Such is the case with her highly anticipated new EP, If I Let You In, which For Folk’s Sake is proud to premiere today.…
Album | Ryan Hutchens – The Last Ten Years
Over the last ten years, Americana has grown immensely in the public eye. Ironically enough, we may have the more formulaic, anthemic folk-rock of Mumford & Sons to thank for that initial jump. Therein, most of what fills the Americana…
Album | Jason Vitelli – Head Above Tide
Jason Vitelli is the sort of artist that most will either “get” straightaway or turn their heads away from in confusion before they can really let the music culminate. Either party has an understandable basis for their actions, given that…
Album | Umbrella Bed – Rotate
Ska has seen quite a revival as of late, though not in the sort of way that one might imagine aficionados of the genre would be warm towards. In the world of ‘any press is good press’, though, bands professing…
Live | TKMA’s First Annual Acoustic Lottery – Tucson, AZ
Some of the most notable contributions to contemporary music come from instances of unexpected collaboration. This much has surely been true longer than history could ever hope to record. Although, some contemporary examples might just include David Bowie and Bing Crosby…
Video | Ferentz and the Felons – Hudson County
Folk music has always provided a bastion for aching slices of real-life tales to be digested by a greater audience. In this sense, it’s always been ‘street music’, wherein troubadours brought their stories near and far for all ears to…
Video Premiere | March to May – ‘If I Told You I Could Stay’
Comprised of singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Darren Guyaz and Beth Wesche, March to May incorporates a broad palette of harp, piano, strings, and horns into their sound. Together, they develop a delicate world set somewhere between that eternal, magnetic push and…
Single | Benjamin Dean Wilson – ‘The Smartest Person in the Room’
Benjamin Dean Wilson’s newest single, ‘The Smartest Person in the Room’, opens with a compelling swirl of the fiddle. Its warm, full sound may indicate that more of the type of chestnut folk or bluegrass music that you’ve grown up…