Calling Hannah Harding a folk singer really doesn’t do her justice. While being compared to the likes of Kate Bush and Scott Walker is heady company, the music she creates distills moments of lyrical beauty and musical complexity. Under the…
For the past six months Joe Innes has been parading around Twitter with an increasingly bombastic persona. He boasts of ‘HUGE’ gigs and lambasts the ‘FAKE NEWS MEDIA’. He even has a hat. It reads, in bold type: ‘MAKE JOE…
It’s been quite the year for For Folk’s Sake favorites The Accidentals, who’ve been riding through 2017 on a wave of good vibes and stellar new music after being signed by Sony Masterworks. The inimitable Michigan trio has been touring…
For every Young, McCartney, and Baez—brilliant songwriters who find acclaim on a much-deserved international scale—there’s a composer, performer, and lyricist who can prove their worth just as well who falls through the cracks. In the case of artists like Chaim…
What a thrill it was to first crack open American High’s debut full-length record for a potential review from this writer. Not because the associated press release attached to the Sacramento-based quartet promised tunes both bizarrely pop-oriented and thematically dark…
Nottingham’s own Jack Peachy has been on a prolific run recently, with this 12 track EP coming just six months after the release of his latest LP Clean. Bad Production is an EP that wears its heart on its politically-active…
While pop radio formats would rarely allow it, the recent rise of the underground poking its way through social media has given a new audience to the oft-underrated fully instrumental stylings of modern day composers. Whether it be Kaki King…
Mac DeMarco isn’t necessarily well known for introspective, minimalist, emotional tunes. His aura of disgust is what his critics peg him for, boxing him in as a stoner-alt music maker for the art school dropouts listening on their Urban Outfitters…
Ciaran Lavery is not a musician to sit on his laurels. Just a mere few months after the release of Live at the Mac, a record preserving his concert at the venue in December 2015, Lavery has returned with a…
Outside of seldom few this side of Lennon, McCartney, and Cohen, Bob Dylan is, among other things, often considered to be the greatest songwriter of modern times. Though his gritty, offbeat vocals may be seen as less than preferential by…