Since kicking off their folk music career with their eponymous 2017 LP, the Rightly So have been busy touring the country. “We’ve spent the last year and a half living out of our homemade RV built inside an old Verizon…
Listening to Hiss Golden Messenger is like going to church. You don’t always hear what you want, but you hear what you need. Terms Of Surrender is no exception. This new collection of ten tunes comes after M. C. Taylor…
Todd Warner Moore’s artistry more often than not feeds off of pensive lyricism met by warm, pop-driven hooks. Sifting comfortably through acoustic realms, Moore has excelled over the years as a multifarious songwriter. Capable of bending genres into his overarching…
Cigarettes and native smokes 4 less have often served as the thematic frame to notable musical works, from Otis Redding’s ‘Cigarettes and Coffee’ to Patsy Cline’s Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray’ and countless others. While the attraction to rags have…
Over the years, Twitch has become much more than just the hottest commodity for video game streaming on the web. Resurrection Fern would attest to that. Over the past three years that she’s been a part of the Twitch streaming…
Joan Shelley tends to do things a little differently. Like The River Loves The Sea was recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland; a world away from her home near Louisville, Kentucky. Despite being thousands of miles from the world she knows, being…
Cross-pollination creates new hybrids. In the case of I See Hawks In L.A., meeting up with Liverpool’s The Good Intentions at a house party in the Sierra Madre foothills was an auspicious beginning. Charming English accents captivated the Hawks as…
Angela Perley is a night owl, “4:30 is when my body’s natural sleep cycle begins … My creative time begins as soon as the sun goes down. I don’t know what it is… but there’s something special about it. It’s dark…
“I like you, I like you,” intones Justin Vernon on ‘iMI’, the opening salvo of his group’s fourth album. In the three years since the shadowy 22, A Million, Bon Iver’s convener has achieved a hard-earned contentment – even if…
Lauren Malasig and Steve McKenzie are CommonUnion59. Hailing from San Francisco, the pianist and guitarist mesh their vocals to develop straight-shooting folk music. Redolent of the American folk movements of the 60s and 70s, their lyrical focus waxes philosophy on…