With even a cursory pulse on the indie music scene, it would have been hard to not come across the name Phoebe Bridgers—a Los Angeles-native indie folk singer-songwriter—within the past few years. Bridgers was featured on an Apple iPhone commercial…
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…
The beard is gone. The hair, hidden below a trucker’s cap bearing the name of his new record, is an unfamiliar bleach blond. And the acoustic guitar is still in the back of the tour bus. At first glance, you…
Dr. Dog is on a mission. Twice during the course of the night they tell their fans to “take care of each other.” That notion of caring is at the heart of who they are, as well as their music.…
Josh Rouse proved to be the perfect antidote to a cold, wet Wednesday April evening. His delivery and vocal style is full of soul and warmth and he likes to make gentle jokes in-between songs, like when telling the audience…
For Folk’s Sake’s Molly Holmberg recently attended Aaron Watson’s show at the Elsinore Theater in Salem, OR. Molly is a professional photographer who takes gorgeous shots of concerts, natural landscapes, and more. Feel free to follow her on Instagram (@mollyholmbergphoto)…
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…
When you step into a venue just as an acapella duet of Joni Mitchell’s ‘A Case Of You’ is starting up you know you’re in for a special kind of Wednesday night. Sweeping over the audience like a fragile…
Jim White is in his 60s these days but as an explorer of country music’s outer reaches age is certainly no albatross. Where lesser musical genres cast aside those grizzled and battered by time’s tide, in Jim’s world wisdom…
In a recent poll on BBC Radio 2, as Richard Thompson proudly informs the audience on stage in hall one of the beautiful Sage in Gateshead, ‘Who Knows Where The Time Goes’ by Fairport Convention was voted the most influential…