3 Dudes & a Mullet's beginning goes back about 5 years, when Fish (lead vocals, guitar and ukulele), Miots (bass, violin percussion, clavichord, oboe), Poni (everything Miots doesn’t want to play) and Bueno (drums and ...
Agridoce is the new project of Brazil's most important new generation rock artist: Pitty. Joined by the guitarrist/singer Martin, a longtime music partner, they've recorded their first album this year, in a one-month-iso...
Agridoce is the new project of Brazil's most important new generation rock artist: Pitty. Joined by the guitarrist/singer Martin, a longtime music partner, they've recorded their first album this year, in a one-month-iso...
ANAIS MITCHELL
YOUNG MAN IN AMERICA
In case you haven't met her, Anaïs Mitchell is not a man. She's a woman, quick to laugh and to cry, a fan of Jane Austen and miniskirts. She came of age reading the diaries of Ana...
Quirkabilly and Turbopolka:
Attwenger Kicks Out the Alpine Austrian Jams
The Austrian duo Attwenger turn Upper Austrian folk music and wry local wisdom into madcap backbeats and funky, flaring accordion. It’s The...
Aunt Martha is the creative vessel of New England based songwriter and vocalist Tim Noyes. The band has taken various shapes since its formation in 2008, all the while being propelled by the constant writing and touring...
Avalanche City is the brainchild of Dave Baxter, a musician whose background stretches across many genres and influences, culminating in a sound that is an impressive and eclectic range of various instruments, melodies a...
Avalanche City is the brainchild of Dave Baxter, a musician whose background stretches across many genres and influences, culminating in a sound that is an impressive and eclectic range of various instruments, melodies a...
One of the first Christmas presents that Brad and Andrew Barr received were two pairs of red boxing gloves. They set up a makeshift ring in their basement in Providence, RI and hung a bell from the water pipes. When the ...
One of the first Christmas presents that Brad and Andrew Barr received were two pairs of red boxing gloves. They set up a makeshift ring in their basement in Providence, RI and hung a bell from the water pipes. When the ...
Rugged, raspy, and roaring with charisma, Halifax’s Ben Caplan is to folklore what smoke is to bourbon. Perfectly coupled. Ben’s songwriting is as bold in range as it is in ferocity. Fuelled by a striking melodram...
Change is good. Sometimes, you just need a little shake-up to get things to how they always ought to have been. With Heat Sin Water Skin, BettySoo adds some welcome edge and grit to the heartbreaker ballads and bell-pure...
Big Harp is the by-product of a three-year whirlwind for husband-and-wife duo Chris Senseney (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney (bass, backing vocals). In those three years a boy from the western N...
Bigott is a band from Zaragoza, Spain. Singing in English, Borja Laudo has been compared to the likes of Bonnie Prince BIlly, Iron and Wine, Lou Reed, and Tom Waits. Laudo has worked with bands such as Tachenko, Big Ci...
Rockhampton’s favourite sons BUSBY MAROU are having a huge 2011. They are the first signing to Warner Music Australia’s indie imprint Footstomp Records, and released their debut self-titled album in June. Their deb...
“Back in the old days,” muses resilient troubadour Chris Smither, “writing new songs and making new albums were just chores. My priority was, and still is, performing live. I guess I still write the songs and make ...
New York City songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling has announced the details of his long-awaited debut album, Songs of Praise & Scorn, which will see a release on February 21st via Brooklyn imprint Mecca Lecca Recording ...
Simply put, they don’t make musicians like Chuck Ragan anymore. For nearly two decades Ragan has traversed the country and the world—first with his celebrated punk act Hot Water Music and later as a solo troubadour...
The music of Cotton Jones speaks of transition: the passage from one form, state of mind, style or place to another. Songs become doorways to the past, or windows that open on some unnamed future, where innocence can sti...
The rootsy trio began when Jazz Mills (T-Bird and the Breaks) got together with Jesse Plemons to write their first song. The collaboration took off and before long the pair was drawing major buzz at SXSW. Daniel James (f...
Icelandic musician Snævar Njáll Albertsson is the mastermind behind Dad Rocks!, the solo project of the singer who initially rose to prominence with the Danish band Mimas. Dad Rocks!, however, is quite different: the g...
Listeners everywhere are having a very emotional response to Dark Dark Dark's music. Their sophomore album, titled Wild Go, is ambitious and layered, welcoming and familiar, and reminds us to seek out the wonder and mag...
‘The Wild Youth’ is the new EP from 21 year old Elena Tonra aka Daughter.
A collection of four dark, ethereal & beautiful new songs, ‘The Wild Youth’ showcases a young musician experimenting delicately with a...
‘The Wild Youth’ is the new EP from 21 year old Elena Tonra aka Daughter.
A collection of four dark, ethereal & beautiful new songs, ‘The Wild Youth’ showcases a young musician experimenting delicately with a...
THE DUNWELLS – BLIND SIGHTED FAITH
Utterly natural. There’s no more fitting description for both the music of The Dunwells as well as the story of their magical rise from the pubs of Leeds, England to an American ...
THE DUNWELLS – BLIND SIGHTED FAITH
Utterly natural. There’s no more fitting description for both the music of The Dunwells as well as the story of their magical rise from the pubs of Leeds, England to an American ...
Eliza Gilkyson is a politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter, who has become one of the most respected musicians in folk and Americana music circles. The Grammy-nominated artist has appeared on NPR, Austin...
Eliza Gilkyson is a politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter, who has become one of the most respected musicians in folk and Americana music circles. The Grammy-nominated artist has appeared on NPR, Austin...
There’s a rare confidence to Emily Jane White’s songwriting: it’s at once generous and tough-minded, reflective and unsentimental. Her work shares some elements with folk music, but the term does not do justice to ...
Combining soft harmonies, comforting guitar chords and toe tapping beats for irresistibly catchy songs that will have you jumping out of your seat - Family Of The Year (FOTY) - Joe Keefe (vocals, guitars), Sebastian Kee...
Rising out of Nashville’s thriving independent music scene, the Farewell Drifters are an alt-folk band known for their 60’s era-inspired harmonies and adventurous musical energy. They have crafted a seamless blend of...
Rising out of Nashville’s thriving independent music scene, the Farewell Drifters are an alt-folk band known for their 60’s era-inspired harmonies and adventurous musical energy. They have crafted a seamless blend of...
Cathy Guthrie and Amy Nelson, also known as Folk Uke, have been writing and performing together for over a decade. Folk Uke is a unique amalgam of angelic harmonies often wrapped around edgy, surprising lyrics. Folk Uke ...
BIOGRAPHY 2012
On Friday the 13th April 2012, Frank Turner will take to the stage at Wembley’s vast Arena venue for the largest headline show of his life.
This career defining show will take place less than two ...
After finding a magic tape machine in the middle of nowhere, Mississippi, the Gashcat collective/family recorded their first EP and moved to Austin, TX.
Since then, they've bounced around the west coast several time...
Over the past three years, indie-folk trio Good Old War has captivated countless audiences with their acoustic-driven, sing-along-inspiring live performances. Now, with the release of their third full-length record Come ...
New Wild Everywhere is the follow-up to Great Lake Swimmers’ critically acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize shortlisted and Juno nominated 2009 album Lost Channels. Their fifth album in just under a decade, this new collect...
Greylag’s sound hinges on the pair’s meditative, hymn-like vocal harmonies, complimented by folksy, bluesy runs on the acoustic guitar. Along with the help of local musicians who regularly join them on tour, the duo ...
Haroula Rose (full name Haroula Rose Spyropoulos) grew up in Lincolnwood, Illinois to Greek parents, and with music constantly playing through the house. She sang in school choirs and her own bands, as well as a capella...
He's My Brother She's My Sister's unique yet familiar sound exudes the earnestness of folk, the colorfulness of glam rock, the infectiousness of pop, the innovation of indie rock, the rawness of blues, the theatrics of c...
Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir’s peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music is filtered through a half-century of folk, country and rock ‘n’ roll and fe...
Justin Ringle has turned out to be a songwriter strongly influenced by the seasons. His Portland, Oregon-based band’s last record, the critically acclaimed House With No Home, was a winter album par excellence, from i...
“George Orwell said that writing should be transparent – like a clear window pane,” says Husky Gawenda, frontman of four-piece band Husky from Melbourne, Australia. Gawenda feels the same way about music. “You sh...
I am Oak; ; calm indiefolk from the Netherlands, for fans of Bon Iver, Iron and Wine or The Tallest Man On Earth.
In 2010, the band formed around Thijs Kuijken, released debutalbum 'On Claws'. Their melancholic folk g...
Jennifer Castle has one of those captivating voices that can quiet a room of bawdy drunks. Her mesmerizing art-folk hymns possess both a certain golden-oldies-radio familiarity and a spectral eeriness....- SPIN......
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Joel Rafael first began performing in showcases and small clubs around Los Angeles, San Diego and the Inland Empire in California. He formed a duo with San Diego-based Rosie Flores in 1978, enjoying standing-room-only c...
Jonathan Wilson
Gentle Spirit
“Gentle Spirit” is not simply the name of the debut solo album by songwriter/musician/producer, Jonathan Wilson, it represents the ethos of the artist himself. Warm, supple mel...
Some people prefer pop music that behaves like math: once a few familiar variables have been determined—female vocals or male? Acoustic guitar or electric? — the end result should be easy to predict, and always sound...
ABOUT LARKIN POE
(“The Band For All Seasons” by: Rebecca & Megan Lovell)
We are sisters. We are music lovers. We are storytellers.
Every since we were little girls, we’ve been awed by the power of a story well t...
La Grande is the 3rd album by native Oregonian songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Laura Gibson. La Grande is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon, a place that “people usually pass through on t...
In the two years since his debut, Leif has played the Montreal Jazz Festival with Daniel Lanois, toured the UK with Sam Amidon, played every major festival in France, and toured incessantly across North America. He's als...
Lisa O’Neill is rapidly emerging as one of the truest contemporary Irish folk voices – unashamedly true to her roots and with a voice so distinctive you might only fail to recognize it if Stevie Nicks ever relocated ...
"Tuesday, March 15, 2011: Somewhere above the Southern United States, en route to Austin, Texas. Over the next five days, I'll hear dozens of bands from all over the world perform at theaters, nightclubs, restaurants, ga...
MARMALAKES is a three-piece folk-pop outfit comprised of Austin natives. Dynamic and concise, their lyric-attentive songs are laced with harmonies, enthusiasm and rock-out moments. Together now for 4 years, they've self-...
Matt Corby has certainly carved a unique path for someone that started his career aged 16 on a reality TV talent show in 2007. In 2009, he independently released his debut EP 'Song For...' before relocating to London and...
Presented by: The GRAMMY Museum's Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute
Upon arriving in Austin, TX in 1990 from New York City, Michael Fracasso was promptly voted Best New Artist in Music City Texas ‘Insiders’ poll and was able to record his first CD, Love & Trust which features a duet ...
The great Townes Van Zandt once said there are two kinds of music: "The blues and zip-a-dee-doo-dah."
According to this, Mirel Wagner's self-titled debut falls solidly into the blues category. "Songwriting can hardly...
While calling to mind the vast and oftentimes desolate American landscape, the folk tales of MUSIKANTO hold their own within the rich tradition of American music. The Chicago-based songwriter grew up listening to his fat...
Nathaniel Rateliff toured relentlessly in 2010 and 2011 supporting his Rounder Records debut “In Memory of Loss” - headlining shows and performing at major festivals throughout USA, Canada, UK and Europe. Earlier thi...
New Town Drunks music has been described as New Vaudeville, Rock and Roll Cabaret, Stream of Consciousness Folk Rock, a musical Bonnie and Clyde and other less clear descriptions. At the core of it is the show-stopping ...
With over 400 shows under our belts, We've traveled to Europe, Hawaii, and everywhere in between during these last three years, capturing hearts and accolades along the way. It began with our first album, "We Are The O'...
Ola Podrida started out as the recording project of film composer David Wingo (releasing the self-titled debut on Plug Research in 2007 and BELLY OF THE LION on Western Vinyl in 2009) but upon moving to NYC in 2006 it be...
On their new and second full release, Yearling (Arena Rock Recording Company), The Parson Red Heads deliver on the great promise that has been steadily building during their eight years as a band. Yearling was recorded ...
Paula & Karol
If you don't know much about the band, Paula & Karol may seem like a
Canadian girl and a Polish guy who got together to write a few happy
folk pop songs on a few folky instruments.
But the real Paul...
It’s not uncommon to form a band while in college, and that is exactly what Quilt did. Its primary members, Shane Butler and Anna Fox Rochinski (as well as Taylor Mcvay—who plays on much of the record, but has since ...
After travelling all around Spain for more than a year with his lat work presentation tour 'Daiquiri Blues' ending last February in Madrid with three consecutive sold outs, Quique González is back to the road to present...
Led by dynamic, energetic front woman and multi-instrumentalist Erin Zindle, The Ragbirds utilize an arsenal of instruments from around the world. The Ragbirds are a fusion of folk rock and pop hooks over danceable world...
The original title for Coyote and Mule, according to Richard Colado (a.k.a. Rickolus) was "Penelopeia," a reference to the wife of Odysseus in Homer's classic epic poem The Odyssey.
It's a fitting allusion as the framew...
River City Extension will release their sophomore album, "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger," on June 5 via XOXO Records / Anchor & Hope Music. The eight-member Toms River, New Jersey, band recorded the 14-track al...
26 year old. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
She started to play in the year 2007, and has released one album called “Atardecer” (Sunset/ Independent, August 2009).
Her songs are composed in guitar ...
The artistic style of Roger Sellers is widely accessible. Imagine folk-dance-americana-electric-symphonic fusion, where Philip Glass, Sufjan Stevens, and Joanna Newson all groove to late night ambient house music in Geor...
Starting as a happy accident of singer-songwriter Rosanne Machado releasing her homemade songs on the Internet, “Rosie and Me” has grown over the years into a successful five-piece act from Curitiba, Southern Brazil....
Quotes:
Hickman’s reputation in the Lone Star State is well
established – she holds the prestigious designation of being
a former Texas State Musician – but with this sumptuous
collection, she’s indelibly etc...
Sarah Siskind has been called "the best female singer/songwriter in America today" (Steve Binder, legendary TV director/producer) and “an artist you must hear now” by Spin Magazine. She has toured with Bon Iver (he h...
“For some it seems a mistake, for me it's a way of life.”
It’s a lyric from Aussie-born New Yorker, Scott Matthew’s new album, which also tells the story of Matthews’ own journey. In a nutshell, it’s a lif...
Presented by: Davis McLarty Agency/Nine Mile Records
I present to you,Shinyribs, the living embodiment of the tension between two opposing truths, The Father Of Secular Gospel, A walking talking Conflicted Juxtaposition, The Laziest Man In Show Buisness, Mr. Cold Fusion, T...
In 2006 a loose collection of musicians began to evolve into a quartet of performers who turn heads for their wild live performance, genre-bending sound, and unique aesthetic. In 2008, the group recorded their eponymous ...
Skinny Lister are not your average, modern day, gentrified English folk group. Fronted by Dan Heptinstall and Lorna Thomas; a vocalist with a lusty cackle and flirtatious presence, the London based five-piece hail from ...
Solander is a Swedish inventive trio making pop music with a folky touch and a playful approach. With the starting point in the Malmö underground scene, Solander emerged with its debut album “Since We Are Pigeons” i...
The Spring Standards are an energetic force of three-part harmony circling over a rock n' roll sound with an old country aftertaste. From small towns to big cities, they explode on stage with spirit, spontaneity, and a s...
The Staves are English sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, whose unique vocal harmonies and haunting melodies have already seen them tipped for success by The Guardian, iTunes, Time Out, and The Independe...
Suzy Bogguss had a revelation on stage with Garrison Keillor in 2008. Everyone loves to sing along on “Red River Valley” – except the children who somehow don't know the song. Folk songs are the scrapbook of the Am...
Born São Paulo (SP), singer Tiê, 31, released in April, this year by Warner Music Brasil her second CD, “A Coruja e o Coração”(The Owl and the Heart) , produced by Plinio Profeta.
After the opening with minima...
Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and dance tunes from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines hair-rai...
Touchy Mob is the plenty-limbed, vulnerable love affair of a hauntingly warm guitar song and the body language of beats, that are meant for a floor. It's a long-term marriage to the lyrical intensity and comforting darkn...
“Supercharged songs with a hooky playfulness and white-knuckle power…”—Esquire
“Lit up and charged…four-part harmonies that are close to being crystalline.”—Daytrotter
On April 10 Thirty Tigers/RED ...
Valerie June
Roots/Americana/Singer-
Songwriter
Hers is a twilight voice, a liquid silk from the heart of Tennessee. It is tailor-made for lullabies and lyric blues; and so, for that matter is Valerie June's spir...
Wild Child, indie-folk pop band from Austin, Texas, began as an acoustic duo consisting of Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins singing ukulele love songs written and shared over red wine and old photographs. The two met ...
Reviewing a recent show in London, a UK music blog wrote that the Wilderness of Manitoba displayed "a natural, unique sound that proves the creativity of this modern folk outfit and the places they are leading the genre"...
William Elliott Whitmore
Field Songs
Anti- Records
A man armed only with a banjo and a bass drum can be a formidable force, especially if his name is William Elliott Whitmore. On the new Anti- Records album FIELD S...
WIM have emerged on the scene out of relative obscurity. There have been whispers about them for years following their wondrous live shows; and now their haunting tunes will bring them into the limelight. Now Modular is ...
Yearbook Committee started as a recording project in a garage and quickly turned into a monster. A collective of sorts. No lead singer. No sole songwriter. Just a group of musicians with one common goal; to write, record...
You Can't Win, Charlie Brown is a Portuguese band formed in early 2009 by Afonso Cabral, Salvador Meneses and Luís Costa, but quickly turned into a 4-piece with the addition of David Santos (a.k.a. Noiserv) to the band'...
