Over the weekend, Nashville singer songwriter Angel Snow wrapped up a successful Pledge Music campaign to fund her sophomore album due out in October. Snow, a Georgia gal now living in Nashville, caught the eye […]
Month: August 2012
Michigan’s Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
Michigan’s Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, a bluegrass band with a pinch of swing, recently released Release Your Shrouds. The band, which is fronted by a young husband-wife duo Lindsay and Joshua Rilko, offers up […]
Last Week in New York Folking City
While there are very few bad weeks for music in NYC, last week held multiple shows that collectively represent some of the very best in the indie folk world today… Spirit Family Reunion and Hurray […]
Mumford & Sons Release “I Will Wait”
Last week, Mumford & Sons released a video for “I Will Wait,” the first single off the band’s long-awaited new album, Babel, which is due out on September 24th. The video shows no people or […]
MNFS: Sharon Van Etten – “We Are Fine”
Editor Note: A new irregular column for you, “MNFS” is just three sentences, a photo and my new favorite song. I’ll post these at random, but they’ll always be good. Brooklyn singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten […]
PBS Celebrates Charles “Pa” Ingalls
Pa’s Fiddle: The Music Of America, a new PBS live concert and DVD released late last month, celebrates the music of traditional American folk songs written about by Laura Ingalls Wilder in her internationally best-selling […]
Arnar’s Tat Takes the Taco
The grass clippings Best Tattoos of the Newport Folk Festival contest drove more traffic to this site than any other post in history. What does that say about our writing? I don’t know. As promised, […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
This week’s goal — spend as little time indoors as possible. And, if you see about half of the shows on this week’s must-see list, it’s a goal you can easily accomplish. First, folk balladeer […]
August’s First Sunday Six
Shovels & Rope (Charleston) – Following a tour earlier this year with Jonny Corndawg (and tours last year with Justin Townes Earle, Jason Isbell and more), Charleston energetic folk duo Shovels & Rope has just […]
The Rise of Brown Bird
Back in 2003, Brown Bird was the solo project of David Lamb, who lived in Portland, ME at the time. It wasn’t until 2008 that Lamb moved to Rhode Island, after meeting multi-instrumentalist MorganEve Swain, […]
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