by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Young Hunting – True Believers
Young Hunting stand at the intersection between dream-pop and gothic folk. They’ve been standing there for a while, their first long player was released five and a half years ago. In order to stay alive in the interim, members of…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video premiere | The Rad Trads – ‘Thumbtack’ (Acoustic)
Just a few days prior, Brooklyn’s Rad Trads reveled in the release of an official music video for their latest single, ‘Thumbtack’. Now, the rising quintet shares an acoustic rendition of the tune with For Folk’s Sake, who proudly premieres…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Tiny Ruins – Olympic Girls
Holli Fulbrook has pursued her own path of artistic evolution. She is now on a different level with respect to the more intimate and traditional acoustic ballads of her debut, but she hasn’t given in to the allure of her…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Sam Levin – Bookmark
Seven years since his artistic debut at 10-years-old, singer-songwriter Sam Levin predates the release of his forthcoming third album, A General Air of Regret, with a new single. To a certain degree, ‘Bookmark’ is classic Levin material, featuring a general air…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Mercury Rev – Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited
Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete was largely and unjustly ignored upon its release over fifty years ago. Not so much a misstep as a miscalculation of what the world of popular music was ready for, it soared far over the…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | The Day – Midnight Parade
You can quickly recognise Midnight Parade as a European release: for the pretty “standard” style, for the slightly dull expressivity, but also for its melodic exuberance. This is in fact the debut album by a German-Dutch couple, who met at…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video premiere | Eric Long – Hey Now Baby
In the newly-released music video for Eric Long’s ‘Hey Now Baby’, the Americana tune’s gently infectious sway is captured with beautiful ease by San Francisco Director of Photography Chad Leto. Featuring Long in a gorgeous natural environment as he performs…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video premiere | Serious Sam Barrett – Last of the Yorkshire Outlaws
Yorkshire’s own traditionalist troubadour Serious Sam Barrett releases his latest record Where The Wild Roses Grow this week (you can check out our review here). While the album sees Barrett break out the banjo, there are still plenty of guitar…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video premiere | D.B. Rouse – The Only Designated Driver in Milwaukee is Having a Pity Party
Hailing from Milwaukee, singer-songwriter D.B. Rouse has worked many hats. His previous occupations range from a cruise ship lounge singer between Miami and New York, simultaneously crooning while maintaining trails at a ranch in Austin, and milking goats and making…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Deer Tick – Mayonnaise
Deer Tick aren’t just one band. Under the sobriquet Deervana, they’ve covered the music of Nirvana, and John McCauley served as a replacement Kurt Cobain (along with Joan Jett) during last October’s Foo Fighters Cal Jam Nirvana show with Dave…