by Erika Severyns • • Comments Off on Interview| The Hidden World of Berlin Folk: Hanging out with David Ingleton at Kindl Stuben
Kindl Stuben is in Neukölln, an area of Berlin famous for its kebabs, the film ‘Sonnenallee’, and low rent prices that attract a lot of immigrants, as well as musicians and other creatives. It borders with Kreuzberg, which is known…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Samana’s Rebecca Rose Harris
Samana are Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett—and, together, they’re setting the psychedelic folk world alight with their haunting art. Ambitious and heartful, the duo depicts themselves as pioneers—pioneering their own freedoms as artists and people, as a symbiotic, intimate…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Idiot Grins’ Randy Strauss
While the Louvin Brothers are well-respected and remembered today for their fine musical talents, Satan is Real’s cover art lives on in perhaps even greater infamy. Celebrated, critiqued, and later memed, nothing quite says “fire-and-brimstone” like a 12-foot cutout of…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Optacure
In Cebuano, the term “mingaw” can mean “lonely” or “peaceful”. When taken in dual context, one receives the serene ennui of Optacure’s new single to its fullest extent. Developed in collaboration with Emmanuel Aguila and Debb Acebu, the tune features…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere + Interview | Molly Murphy – What You’re Living For
Winding up to the 29 January release of her debut EP, Molly Murphy’s road has driven her from the historic shores of Fairfield, CT to Nashville. There in Music City, the forthcoming folk-rocker finds her digs at the Hopsmith Tavern,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere + Interview | Martin Ruby – ‘Kodachrome Shangri-La’
“I used to watch Gunsmoke with my little brother who is only 14 months younger than me. We beat the shit out of each other all the time. I sent him to the hospital once covered in blood. About when…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with The Northern Belle’s Stine Andreassen
Fleetwood Mac are a timeless treasure, but if there were ever to be a successor, Norway’s Northern Belle are fighting well for the title. Recently out with the release of their third studio album, We Wither, We Bloom, the septet…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Mike Straw, of Doc Straw & the Scarecrows
Rooted in bayou blues, homespun rock, and reflective folk, Doc Straw & the Scarecrows produce blue collar southern rock and Americana that’s as engaging as it is down-to-earth, and as heart-rending as it is thought-inducing. Their latest, ‘Get On By’,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Shawna Virago
2020 has been unpredictable, to say the very least. Shawna Virago’s ‘Heaven Sent Delinquent’ bares a stark message of hope for these burdened times, and her new electric mix ups the octane some. A critique of the oppressive and proud,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Eric Anders
Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz’ American Bardo begins with ‘Matterbloomlight (Revisited)’. Earlier this year, For Folk’s Sake premiered and praised the single for its complex, cyclical themes and the profundity of its arrangement. Now, much of the same can be…