Thanks to Pitchfork, we’ve got our first taste of Sun Kil Moon’s Among the...
Earlier this week, M. Ward posted the first single – “Primitive Girl” – off...
Late last week, Bon Iver released a video featuring five songs he recorded at...
Our friends over at NPR have just posted Laura Gibson’s forthcoming album – La...
Hi, Everyone! Well, it’s that time of year again! The time when I get...
Hi, Everyone! Well, it’s that time of year again! The time when I get to pontificate about the top releases of the year. However, as usual, I have a really difficult time ranking things. This is something that carries over from my work as a professor. After all, what is the difference between a...
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Friend of the blog, past feature, and all-around excellent singer-songwriter Katie Davis has released three new songs via YouTube, and you lucky devils can hear them after the jump. The songs are currently in the form of home recordings which feature just Katie and her guitar. The result is three wonderfully intimate recordings that...
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Delta Rae is a North Carolina band with four lead singers, and a whole mess of harmonies. Their sound fuses Americana, Blues, Gospel, and Rock, and it comes at you like a freight train. In their new, Halloween-friendly single, “Bottom of the River” (video and free download below), the band creates an enormous sound...
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Saintseneca is a band of lifelong friends from Columbus, Ohio who write songs that move easily from tender to frenetic and back again. With pop-folk songs built on traditional, Appalachian instruments (banjos, fiddles, dulcimers, and “other forms of frontporch percussion”), Saintseneca’s sound is both modern and traditional. And mesmerizing, at times… it wouldn’t do...
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Among other things, Lissie produces a truly prodigious amount of excellent music covers. Out this week is the video...
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Thanks to Pitchfork, we’ve got our first taste of Sun Kil Moon’s Among the Leaves (out 5/29 on Caldo...
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The Magnetic Fields have released the video for “Andrew in Drag” from their forthcoming Love at the...
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Earlier this week, M. Ward posted the first single – “Primitive Girl” – off of his forthcoming album A...
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Saintseneca is a band of lifelong friends from Columbus, Ohio who write songs that move easily from tender to frenetic and back again. With pop-folk songs built on traditional, Appalachian instruments (banjos, fiddles, dulcimers, and “other forms of frontporch percussion”), Saintseneca’s sound is both modern and traditional. And mesmerizing, at times… it wouldn’t do...
The Girls from the North Country are a pair of Parisian singer-songwriters – Paloma Gil and Louise Hayat (also of Black Ivy)- that I came across over at Live at Carlone’s when researching some other entries. Their cover of Ryan Adams’ “Oh My Sweet Carolina” was so awesome, however, that I had to abandon...
Umber is Alex Steward: an English musician who records beautiful, delicate ambient music in a bedroom-studio out in the English countryside. With an approach to craft that reminds me of fellow countrymen – Message to Bears – Umber’s Morning’s Pass conjures the sleep-filled moments of the early morning, the coming of the dawn, and...
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