by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Rebekah Rolland – Standing Still
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…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Listen | Caitlin Jemma – Love Notes
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…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Eleanor Freidberger – Rebound
Following her 2017 tour, Eleanor Friedberger took a sojourn to Greece to recharge and explore her Greek heritage. She also learned to do the chicken dance at Rebound a late night, or early morning club (depending on your perspective of…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Ghostly Beard – Inward
Ghostly Beard exists to make a statement. How can you get any more folk than that? Like Americana duo Newspoke, not much more is known about Ghostly Beard beyond his music and his moniker. Artists that decide to produce their…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Melaku – Golden Age
At the start, it’s easy to pass up on Melaku. It’s at first glance that he just seems like another singer-songwriter whose self-funded, produced, and released his debut EP for all of three people to entertain. Although, this is a…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Alabaster DePlume – The Corner of a Sphere
You can look for the company of music for various reasons: you want to hear a sad voice, an angry, youthful version of yourself, or even a funny guy enjoying his life. What is common among all these aspects is…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Oliver the Crow – ‘Samson’
Everyone knows and loves Regina Spektor’s ‘Samson’. Or, at the very least, they should. It seems like the singer-songwriter’s gorgeous and plaintive 2006 alt-folk wonder has inspired as many covers as it has television placements. The heartbreaking, sort-of biblical love…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | DocFell & Co. – ‘Tough’
Opening with one heck of a fiddle flourish, DocFell & Co. define their homegrown roots sound right out of the gate on ‘Tough’. The tune, which is featured on their forthcoming album, encapsulates all of the inner makings of a…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Aya Maguire – The Sandcastle King
From its opening moments, Aya Maguire’s The Sandcastle King is instantly entrancing. It hasn’t been all that long since the Boulder singer-songwriter began turning out music, with her first EP (Fireflies) debuting last July. Yet, her newest output already feels leagues…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Ajay Mathur – Little Boat
Ajay Mathur may not be a household name, but he sure knows how to roll with the best of them. Born in India, Mathur began putting in his dues around the 70s in popular venues throughout his home country. It…