Author: Jonathan Frahm

Album | Rob Alexander – Long Road Coming Home

Rob Alexander’s Long Road Coming Home instantly recalls an era of radio dominated by piano-pop pioneers. Fronted by sprightly keyboards, forward-moving percussion, and heady sax breaks, Alexander serves as the hearty frontman to deliver these hook-laden gems. Avoiding direct comparisons…

Album | Kristina Stykos – River of Light

A couple of years back, Kristina Stykos was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia. Facing a reality where singing and even holding day-to-day conversations wouldn’t be as easy as it once was, the diagnosis has still never stopped Stykos in her tracks.…

Interview | FFS 5 with William Crighton

Following a breakout UK visit earlier this summer, Australian artist William Crighton sat down with For Folk’s Sake as part of our ongoing ‘FFS 5’ interview series. Albeit brisk, the singer-songwriter’s answers offer us a window to peer through into…

Album | The Rightly So – Vandura

Since kicking off their folk music career with their eponymous 2017 LP, the Rightly So have been busy touring the country. “We’ve spent the last year and a half living out of our homemade RV built inside an old Verizon…

Album | Todd Warner Moore – Starry Sounds

Todd Warner Moore’s artistry more often than not feeds off of pensive lyricism met by warm, pop-driven hooks. Sifting comfortably through acoustic realms, Moore has excelled over the years as a multifarious songwriter. Capable of bending genres into his overarching…

Album | Luiz e os Louises – Life’s a Cigarette

Cigarettes and native smokes 4 less have often served as the thematic frame to notable musical works, from Otis Redding’s ‘Cigarettes and Coffee’ to Patsy Cline’s Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray’ and countless others. While the attraction to rags have…

Video Premiere | Elsa Birgitta Bekman – Desire Lines

With the release of ‘Desire Lines’, Elsa Birgitta Bekman has two singles to her name. The first, ‘Once in My Life (Sverige Vals)’, debuted to much aplomb in early July beside a stirring self-produced cinematic. She’s approaching the release of…

Single | Resurrection Fern – Savanna

Over the years, Twitch has become much more than just the hottest commodity for video game streaming on the web. Resurrection Fern would attest to that. Over the past three years that she’s been a part of the Twitch streaming…

Interview | FFS 5 with Josh Rennie-Hynes

In the ongoing pursuit of his musical career, Josh Rennie-Hynes moved from his native Australia to Nashville last year. In doing so, he left behind not only his home country, but the place where he’d already dropped two critically-acclaimed solo…