by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | The Accidentals – Parking Lot EP
It’s been a long time coming, but Traverse City, Michigan wonderkids The Accidentals have finally released a collection of new tunes. Said collection comes in the form of their Parking Lot EP, named after their lead single of the same…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Watching for Foxes’ new single ‘Undone Bird’
FFS is delighted to bring you the premiere to Watching for Foxes’ new single ‘Undone Bird’. With an album of the same name releasing just around the corner on June 10, the Grand Rapids-based quintet’s frontman, Joey Frendo, has this…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | The Crane Wives – Foxlore
Consisting of Kate Pillsbury, Emilee Petersmark, Ben Zito, and Dan Rickabus, Grand Rapids’ Crane Wives have quickly ascended to the top of their scene’s radar since their 2010 inception. They, alongside bands like The Ragbirds and The Accidentals, have become…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | The Ragbirds – The Threshold & the Hearth
Hailing from Ann Arbor, MI, The Ragbirds are a band that have transcended the typical avenues of traditional roots music to develop something totally new from the ground up. The most exciting part of their music as a whole might…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Bob Dylan – Fallen Angels
Whether he’s electrifying his sound and revolutionizing rock and roll, taking things back down an acoustic notch or two to embrace his folk roots, or releasing a Christmas album to notoriously mixed reception, Bob Dylan has remained an unlikely trailblazer…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Live | The Accidentals @ The Sea of Glass, Tucson
In any case, The Accidentals are a band that has seen exponential growth since their inception. Beginning as a project between two self-proclaimed “orch dorks” in the midst of a shared high school class, Savannah Buist and Katie Larson have…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Jealous of the Birds – Parma Violets
Though her musical career has been birthed from out of folk roots, Irish singer-songwriter Naomi Hamilton paints a much broader picture than any particular genre could dare to encapsulate in Jealous of the Birds’ Parma Violets. On Parma Violets, Hamilton…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – PersonA
If Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros were to be described in a single word, that word would be communal. Whether considering singalong, clap-along anthems ranging from the seminal “Home” to lesser-known burners like “They Were Wrong”, Alex Ebert’s brainchild…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Loretta Lynn – Full Circle
Of all of the clichés that plague the ears since birth for the majority of us fine denizens of Earth, one old saying that rings the most true is “Age is just a number.” At 83 years young, Loretta Lynn…