Author: Jonathan Frahm

Premiere | Dennis Hollström & the Ponies – Blood Moon

“The song is about letting go of things in your past that doesn’t serve you anymore,” says Dennis Hollstrom. “Sung and played as a healing relief with harmonies and a playful harmonica.” With a statement like that, Hollstrom sounds like…

Premiere | Dylan Perkons – Desert Island

While The Healing Day is to mark Dylan Perkons’ official debut, the Victoria, BC artist has been honing his craft in songwriting for years prior. The Healing Day, therefore, is more-so a poised artist finally stepping into the light. The…

Premiere | Suzie Brown – I Choose You

Bifurcation in and of itself isn’t a rarity, but Suzie Brown’s story is a head-turner. Working as a part-time cardiologist at Nashville’s Vanderbilt, the singer-songwriter pursues a career in folk artistry during her off-time. The result of Brown’s committal to…

Interview | FFS 5 with Graham Stone

You can’t turn on the television or flick through your social feeds without being bombarded with bad news. “It’s like the whole world’s got the blues,” Americana singer-songwriter Graham Stone feels that lyric in his bones, it’s an apt summation of his new…

Album | Kevin West – Story of My Life

In his time, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Kevin West has run the gamut on performance style. Starting somewhere around the blues, West’s nomadic studying habits saw him investing in the structures of hard rock, metal, jazz, and hip-hop along the way.…

Interview | FFS 5 with The Brookses

The debut LP from Atlanta-based father-daughter folk duo The Brookses, Lucky Charm, is the culmination of a decades-in-the-making partnership, harnessing and presenting an energy that could only be borne from family bonds. Between Jim’s experience in the Atlanta music scene–having…

Interview | FFS 5 with Ship & Sail

Ship & Sail made a splash in its respective Michigan scene following the release of their EP, From Seeds. Dedicated to Colin Haggerty’s late mother, his plaintive first studio cuts lived up to Ship & Sail’s tagline: “A little fun,…

Premiere | The Rose Valley Thorns – Steel Strings

The Rose Valley Thorns find their inspiration in the region which they share a name with, nestled snugly within the mountains of Ojai, California. Not quite traditional bluegrass or the studied unconventionality of Chris Thile’s newgrass, the Ojai string band…

Interview | FFS 5 with Signe Marie Rustad

While it’s been some time since Signe Marie Rustad once lived on the Norwegian farm upon which she was born and raised, her experiences there invariably shaped her into the artist that she has become. The forests, rivers, and fields…