Following in the footsteps of Leonard Cohen, Michael P Cullen is, in many ways, a poet before he is a musician. That isn’t to say that he isn’t musically inclined, or that his lingering baritone has an unpleasant quality. Rather,…
For Folk’s Sake recently had the opportunity to catch up with rising western artist Ross Cooper. This interview succeeds the recent release of Cooper’s excellent I Rode the Wild Horses on 9 March, which he initially successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter. As…
Magical Beasts are a rising Chicago roots band whose primary goal is to make “mostly simple folk and songwriter music set to compelling, lyrical instrumentation and interwoven vocal harmonies.” Or, so it goes on their IndieGoGo campaign page, anyway. The…
Released just over a week back, Pedigo’s Magic Pilsner is the self-titled debut of John Pedigo’s latest musical endeavor. Decorated with the detailed down-on-their-luck personas and emotions that only a folk-laden release could ever hope to pursue, Pedigo keeps things varied…
The notion of a soccer mommy conjures images of a 35-year-old woman with two kids and an SUV to ferry the kids to practice and games. Yet Sophie Allison is a 20-year-old on leave from NYU majoring in rock and…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwzjGnmqBU[/embedyt] Having released two albums in her native Greece, Irene Skylakaki makes her UK release debut with new EP Planet. Irene’s music is essentially singer-songwriter in style, but is performed in various ways: playing live with a string section;…