Multiple friends of the grass clippings fam had a week to be thankful for…and released some good vids for us to share. Anthony D’Amato, the young Manhattan folk singer we got to know at Newport […]
Month: November 2013
Andrew Bird – “Pulaski at Night”
Earlier this month, Andrew Bird released I Want to See Pulaski at Night (Amazon MP3 & Spotify) – a new seven song, thirty-two-minute-long EP. A follow up to last year’s Hands of Glory, the EP […]
Della Mae Tonight at Rockwood
Boston-based Della Mae made it’s Rounder Records debut earlier this year with This World Oft Can Be, which maintained the band’s strong and polished traditional-bluegrass roots that we first heard and fell in love with at […]
Trans-Pacific Old Time from George, Andrew and Daniel
In my time Down Under, I spent a few days in Melbourne where I met up with Mustard Courage – one of the few straight-up bluegrass bands in Australia. The band’s virtuoso mandolinist, Paddy Montgomery, […]
This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
You know how sometimes your insides feel exactly how a country song sounds? Like, ‘sometimes’ as in ‘all the time’? Sturgill Simpson brings his old-school-meets-new crooning to NYC this weekend, playing Hill Country BBQ on […]
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers – ‘Burn Brightly’
In late September, The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers – the true gospel band from the artsy, northeastern LA suburb – released its second EP of the year. Consisting of just three songs, Burn Brightly (Bandcamp […]
Chapel Hill’s Mipso – Dark Holler Pop
North Carolina – possibly my favorite state in all of these United States – has given us a number of indiegrass bands in the last few years. Carolinians like the The Honeycutters and Mandolin Orange […]
Michaela Anne, Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman, and T.H.E.M at The Rock Shop
Back in April, I met up with Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman at the Brooklyn Folk Festival just before the duo headed south for MerleFest. It was there that they won the songwriting competition for […]
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