by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Magana – Oceans
Back in July, Magana stunned the For Folk’s Sake audience with the premiere of ‘Inches Apart’. Now, the “bedroom folk” singer-songwriter is continuing her ascent with the release of another single. In a stroke of fate, this time around it’s…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on EP | Phil Lomac – Northern Cities Southern Stars
Every so often, a one-man band just comes around and wows us all. Most notoriously these days might well be Jack White and Shakey Graves, but throughout history, there’ve been a few. Remember Jesse Fuller and Doctor Ross? These days,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Rachel & the Ruckus – Water & Oil
Chances are that if you’re reading this article—or if you’ve ever had a heartbeat—that you’ve been through a bad relationship. For one reason or another, things just didn’t work out between you two to the point that things felt downright…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on EP | Hannah Nicholson – Breath
I find that this time of the year, as the leaves turn an autumn hue, and the nights get a little bit longer, one of the best times of the year. This extends itself to music, too. Usually, the music…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Nick Mulvey – Wake Up Now
In the three years since First Mind, the first record by London-based Nick Mulvey, the world has changed dramatically. The coalition government in the UK is no more, instead led by a propped up Conservative government locked in negotiations to…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | The Rightly So – Self-Titled
Inspired by the constant stream of earworms developed by such artistic empaths as Brandi Carlile and the Lumineers, the Rightly So’s Gregory Zeis and Jess Chizuk are the latest folk duo to hit the streets. Not all of them land,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Eric George – Not About Nightingales
Eric George is one of the smartest songwriters in the entire indie folk scene and nobody knows it. That isn’t to say that nobody knows him—or, at least by this point he should have the entire state of Vermont on…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Chrystyna Marie – LIFE
Kicking things off with an 80s-inspired blues lick, the opening moments of LIFE begin with Chrystyna Marie establishing herself as a moxie-filled artist that rides between whiskey-tinged roots rock and a pop show-woman’s mentality right out of the gate. She attacks opening…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Kris Heaton Band – Who Let the Bullets Fly
Towing the line between blues, rock and even pop sentimentality, Kris Heaton has won a multitude of awards for his deft ability to mesh genres together into his own spatial sound. As far as indie outlets go, Kris rocks the…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
The opening volley of The War On Drugs new LP, A Deeper Understanding, sets the stage for everything that comes after it. At first sounding like a track off The Black Keys last album, when the drums kick in on ‘Up…