by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Incoming | Hiss Golden Messenger return with ‘Hallelujah Anyhow’
Usually, during the summer months, the music industry packs its bags and jets off somewhere nice and warm for a well-deserved break. Maybe 2017 is going to break that tradition, as music news seems to be coming in left, right…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Alex Siegel – Röykkä
Other than sharing the same first and last name of a character that I’d written into an eBook at age 13 that has since been removed from Amazon, Santa Monica-based artist Alex Siegel also writes, records, and performs music for…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album Review | Lucy Rose – Something’s Changing
It is hard to believe that were it not for the power of the internet, Something’s Changing, Lucy Rose’s 3rd record, would probably not exist. In her press for this record, Lucy stressed how it was only through people in…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Song of the Day | Indigo Girls – Elizabeth
As the Indigo Girls begin their latest tour of the UK this month, it’s hard to believe it’s nearly 20 years since they released their eponymous debut album. No surprise then that latest album One Lost Day has a retrospective…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Revolushn – Further!!
If we’re talking about defining eras, Sheb Wooley’s done it and so have The Beatles, but few have bucked the psychedelic rock trend in recent days like Revolushn do in their latest record, Further!!. Perhaps astoundingly, given the niche nature…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Adam Winn EP
From Amai Kuda Y Josephine to Mary-Kate Edwards, there’s been a positive surfeit of Canadian singer-songwriters proving their mettle and bubbling to the tops of their respective scenes. Out of British Columbia, Adam Winn is proving himself to be a…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
“I’ve been thinking a lot about truth and storytelling and the way that stories and truth change over time according to who’s telling them or who’s listening to them,” says Kate Stables, singer, songwriter and anchor of This Is The…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album Review | Bedouine – Bedouine
Azniv Korkejian is a woman of substance. At the advanced age of 32 she is releasing what is effectively her first, captivating album under the name Bedouine. Channeling everyone from Astrud Gilberto to Joni Mitchell, along with Nick Drake and…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Song of the Day | The Last Dinosaur – All my Faith
Until last week, I hadn’t heard of ‘The Last Dinosaur’, the moniker of London based Jamie Cameron. When a track from the PR came into my inbox, what I heard stopped me from what I was doing; a rare occurrence…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on EP | Robin Elliott – At Sunset
The stark finger-picked opening on Robin Elliott’s new EP tells you everything you need to know about the record. Here is a bold yet stripped-back collection of songs from one of the purest songwriting talents in music today. This is…