Every so often, an artist emerges from the woodwork with music so brilliant that you can just tell that they are headed places. Such was the case with the likes of Orange Room-era Ed Sheeran or Hozier from the moment he dropped…
We have a saying here in Tucson that’s reverberated throughout much of our artistic community, and that’s to “Keep Tucson weird!” We may not be as big as Phoenix or as affluent as Scottsdale, but we make up for it…
If the story of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs is anything to go by, sometimes you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your own garage to deliver something innovative to the world. Now, that isn’t to say that…
Evoking shades of Noah Gundersen and The Tallest Man on Earth, Norwegian up-and-comer Jarle Skavhellen presents ruminative, lilting folk to captivate the senses. In this case, the atmospheric layers of sound that Skavhellen introduces to listeners in ‘Coming Home’ represents…
Over the past several years that he’s been performing under the Galapaghost name, Woodstock singer-songwriter Casey Chandler has become revered in New York song circles and even on an international basis throughout Italy, Germany, and Belgium. It’s not hard to…
Sometimes, artists burst out of their respective scene with a real humdinger straightaway. Most of the time, however, music takes time to settle into and own, regardless of passion. For every Jackson 5 bursting out of the scene in preadolescence,…
In her pursuit of music and magick, Arden Leigh has taken a multi-folded path in life. What seems to converge these paths more than even the creative light between them, though, is a search for passionately expressed truths. You can…
For Folk’s Sake is privileged to share a performance of Cricket Tell the Weather frontwoman Andrea Asprelli’s new tune, ‘The Mountain & the Sea’. Although an original penned by Asprelli, the gentle sway of her performance could stand unsuspectingly tall…
One of this writer’s absolute favorite releases of 2018 so far has got to be Kyle Carey’s The Art of Forgetting. The revered singer-songwriter’s fourth album is chockful of serene folk songs pulling from both Celtic and Americana influences. It’s a…
Following in the footsteps of Leonard Cohen, Michael P Cullen is, in many ways, a poet before he is a musician. That isn’t to say that he isn’t musically inclined, or that his lingering baritone has an unpleasant quality. Rather,…