Following a move from their North Carolina home, violinist Peter Blackwelder and frontman Taylor Borsuk formed the folk duo Skin & Bones. Their humble beginnings saw them busking on Venice Beach to make their ends meet. Now, they’re set to…
One might be hard-pressed to find an album more personally developed than Wulijimuren’s Sun of UTC+8. Each guitar-centric composition tells a different life story based on the Mongolian immigrant’s own experiences both in his home country and the United States following…
It won’t take very long to realise something has fundamentally changed at Union Music Store in Lewes. Walk through the door and on the wall facing you, you’ll spot London Calling by the Clash, Let It Be by the Replacements…
Rooted in the same vein of contemporary folk as early Blind Pilot or Okkervil River, Planes on Paper produce music that is occasionally grand and always intimate. Composed of Jen Borst and Navid Eliot, their artful debut album Edge Markings is…
Robin Bacior left a mark in listeners’ heart with her album Water Dreams, an evocative collection of jazzy chamber-folk songs that do sound as the album title suggests. Robin will be releasing a new record called Light It Moved Me…
Three years on from his last full-length record Alone, Together, Daniel Pearson has spent 2018 releasing a string of singles for download. ‘Pieces of a Puzzle’ and ‘Honest Man’ have proved internet hits with over a million streams, and Pearson…
After decades of sitting out from the spotlight, revered singer-songwriter Eric Andersen shares his first music video. At a spry 75 years of age, Andersen has a world-worn depth in his stride that many folk artists could only hope to…
In just a few years, Americana entrepreneur James Adkins has already bubbled near the top of the Midwestern music scene. Offer an ear to his music and it’s not hard to hear why that is. In Adkins is an unsuspectingly…
While she’s been touring coast-to-coast with Run Boy Run over the past decade, Rebekah Rolland is still a newfound Tucson treasure to the world at large. Although she hails from the desert, the songs adorning Seed & Silo often evoke images of…
Caitlin Jemma’s fourth album sees the Oregon singer step out stylistically as she embraces a sound as big and bold as the feelings in her songwriting. After three largely acoustic records, Love Notes finds Jemma rip through 10 tracks of…