by Pete Bate • • Comments Off on Album | Low – Double Negative
If Low’s last album, 2015’s acclaimed Ones and Sixes, saw them slip off their slowcore shackles, Double Negative feels like a near-detonation of all that’s gone before. As the band moved into their third decade, a sense of consolidation surrounded…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | The Good Morning Nags – No Damn Good EP
The Good Morning Nags’ new EP, No Damn Good, just goes to show that ‘short’ often does mean ‘sweet’. At the very least, it sure does in this instance. The two songs that decorate its quaint halls assure listeners of that.…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Lizzie Weber – You
At the end of a very painful breakup, Lizzie Weber harnessed her emotions in a set of songs that were too painful to perform. Now, some four years later, the scars have lost much of their sting. The results found…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | C-Wired – Omega
When Chuck Whyard hits the stage, he becomes the electrifying Americana artist, C-Wired. A free-wheeling mystic capable of producing powerful, tenacious grooves, he and his band develop a multifarious collection of songs for their debut EP, Omega. Washed with lush production…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Mitch Bradford – ‘Everybody Got Someone to Love (‘Cept You and Me)’
Mitch Bradford is a contemporary artist who appreciates the warm minimalism of vintage folks and roots rock. Taking a page from the likes of Jackson Browne and Neil Young, his style is unvarnished, conversational, and from the heart. Ergo, it…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Listen to Ben Somers’ new album Poor Stuart in full
Those of you who follow the For Folk’s Sake sessions will already be excited about Ben Somers’ new record Poor Stuart after he popped by to perform ‘Life On The Road. Now we can offer up the premiere of the…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Katie Barbato – The Art of Falling
With a vinyl release in just four days and a digital one soon to follow on 21 Sept., Katie Barbato is sharing the title track of her forthcoming EP with For Folk’s Sake today. Accompanying it is a gorgeous video…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Norm Brunet – It Don’t Get Better Than This
Quebec-born and Ottawa-raised, Norm Brunet was struck with an ironic revelation when he performed to a Nashville crowd for the first time last year. Being labeled by the audience as an Americana artist, Brunet was perplexed and humored, once saying…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Watch | Ben Delaurentis – Fill in the Blanks (Acoustic)
You’ve heard of Jam in the Van, but how about Jam in the Bus Conversion? That’s exactly what Ben Delaurentis did with this sweet acoustic rendition of his song, ‘Fill in the Blanks’. His songwriting verges on the contemporary neo-folk…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album Premiere | Robin Bacior – Light It Moved Me
Although you may not have heard of Robin Bacior, she is no newcomer. In fact, it is hard to think of a more accomplished songwriter and artist, and Light It Moved Me is further proof of it. Moving seamlessly between…