Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile aren’t exactly media darlings yet, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be soon. Lotta Sea Lice, their joint venture seems to defy expectations, creating one of the most surprising discs of the year. It doesn’t…
Just in time for Halloween, Olivia Mainville & the Aquatic Troupe return with a spooky new single from off of their forthcoming record. While fans of the grimly folk quartet will have to wait until next year for the entire…
Not everything in life is sunshine and rainbows. We have our highs, and we sure do have our lows. San Diegan contemporary folk artist Lindsay White understands this as well as anyone, but rarely do such accessible songs lean into…
If Ben Brookes’ latest single, “Stories in the Rain”, is anything to go by, then we are in for one heck of a record once his full-length record drops in the near future. In the meantime, though, listeners can regale…
God bless the incorporation of looping in modern music. Though we can go as far back as Bing Crosby in regards to contemporary usage of ostinato, the refinement of electroacoustic music in more recent times has brought us some real…
Fronted by For Folk’s Sake’s very own Joey Frendo, Michigan-based “sweater rock” band Watching for Foxes have caught the eye of Americana fans around the U.S. following their first nationwide tour with Folk Family Revival earlier this year. What began…
The Deportees have been working on their debut album for three years, and now there’s only three weeks left until it arrives. The Aberdeen five-piece will release The Birth of Industry on November 3, with the album billed as an…
Sophia Marshall isn’t afraid of making tough choices. Leaving the relative security of The HaveNots, she took a new road, working as a backing singer to the likes of Be Good Tanyas, Tift Merrit, and Frazey Ford. Following nine years…
For a confessional singer-songwriter, Phoebe Bridgers is something of a different breed. Self-deprecating, caustic and prone to her share of vices, Bridgers says exactly what’s on her mind. On her first full-length release, Stranger In The Alps, she’s got plenty…
At its heart, Americana is a celebration of all of the music that establishes itself as an American foundation. That may be why the genre has since moved on past its “alt. country” etymological roots, given that that description wouldn’t…