Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s The Hills and the Rivers may just be one of the most promising folk outlets to emerge from the Mid-Atlantic in recent years. Billed as a street folk family band, they are indeed, actually, a true blue family…
At the core of Sister Speak is an enlivened soul. Los Angeles-based Canadian artist Sheri Anne is intent on using the moniker to funnel forward an admirable purpose—to craft inspiring, inspiriting, and innovative music. So, when it’s said that Sister…
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 Flaming Lips have never been a band to do anything halfway. They’ve released records encased with their own blood, and for Record Store Day 2018, they pressed albums with their Dragons & Yum Yums brand of Dogfish Head Ale…
The amount of artistic credit that has built up around the name of Lindsey Jordan, aka Snail Mail, has gotten so high that it is difficult to make an informed judgement about it. Almost every paper or digital ‘zine has…
Following the split of the aptly-named Christian Heath Band, the South African singer-songwriter has since moved on to produce work of his own. Velvet-covered pop defines the majority of his new EP, One, slinking in elements of Latin soul and rock…
Taking cues from the likes of Springsteen and Petty before them, C.K. & the Rising Tide develop palatable Americana that just about anyone can sink their teeth into. It isn’t without its contemporary flair, of course, featuring reverb-friendly production that…
Despite all that has been said about the world becoming more and more connected and so on, we are definitely still a long way from artists and musicians having the same opportunities in terms of reach and consideration. In a…
At the center of folk music and roots music of all kinds is a spirit for social action. Wherein some of her contemporaries have shied away from carrying on such a passion for human rights in the stories they tell,…
If you’re reading this, chances are that you know of Leonard Cohen. Ever since his emergence as an artist over 60 years ago, he has garnered respect from the folk world for his poetic and evocative songwriting. It would be…