A couple weeks back, Patty Griffin released American Kid (Amazon MP3 & Spotify) – an album that many say is a revisit to the folk goddess’s roots. I disagree. She’s the same as she always […]
Month: May 2013
Della Mae’s Rounder Records Debut
Boston bluegrass band Della Mae releases This World Oft Can Be (Amazon MP3), its sophomore album and Rounder Records debut, on May 28th but they’re making the most of this release with a week long […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
It’s a bit (PUN ALERT) slim “clippings” this week … which we like to think of as something that makes it that much easier to arrange our schedule. Because it’s Tuesday, and because it’s fun […]
Austin’s Wheeler Brothers
Every year, the lineup at the Newport Folk Festival includes a few folks that we don’t know so well. This year there were a few, including the Austin-based Americana group known as the Wheeler Brothers. […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
Right. So, for any ladies out there doubting that it’s completely possible to fall in love more than thrice in the span of a week … you’re about to be proved wrong, times six (or […]
Howard Fishman Tributes Connie Converse
The story of Connie Converse is one that’s hard to swallow. Converse, a much overlooked yet extremely talented 1950s New York singer songwriter, disappeared in 1974 after writing goodbye letters to her friends and family. […]
Joy Kills Sorrow – “Such Great Heights”
Earlier today I scored an early copy of Wide Awake, the forthcoming seven-song EP from Joy Kills Sorrow, the Boston (and Brooklyn and Portland, ME) -based stringband that headlined the grass clippings holiday hootenanny in […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
There may not be the normal slew of local shows to write home about this week, but there is a BK set by a new band that should be cause for alarm. The good kind […]
Boston’s Tall Heights Album Release Show
In celebration of their first full-length album debut, Boston folk duo Tall Heights plays this Saturday, May 4th at the 92Y Tribeca with our friend Anthony da Costa and Caitlin Canty rounding out the night. […]
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