Have you ever felt the outstanding need to claw your way out of your own self-made conformity and aspire to develop something totally new, yet, in part, old as it was crafted out of your pure ingenious reflection on the…
Album | von Konow – Lieder
Category: Reviews
Live | Patch & The Giant @ The Basement, York
“We’re going to play you a song off the new record now,” Angie announces. “Actually, they’re all off the new record but it sounds cool to say that.” Those of us crammed into the Basement on the banks of the…
Album | Greg and the Granules – Answer to Influence
For longtime fans of the psychedelic Southern California surf band, Particle Wave, and are particularly invested in the scene from which the band stems from, it may come as a surprise that frontman Greg Maechling is decidedly making an Americana…
Single | Edward & Graham – Menomonee Road
In the wonderful world of roots music, duos seem to have swiftly become all the rage. Whether we’re talking the audience applause whenever Shakey Graves and Esmé Patterson join forces for something from off of And The War Came, or…
Single | Christina Rubino – Down to the Sea
One such revelation of the ever-expanding world of folk has been its alternative cousin. Birthing cutting-edge records from the likes of Jessica Lea Mayfield, Jesca Hoop, and Amanda Palmer, among others, this particular breed of alternative folk takes some cues…
Live | Sarah Jarosz @ St. Barnabas Church, Oxford
The venue for the Jarosz’s concert in Oxford was St. Barnabas Church, a 160-year-old structure that looms on the edge the Oxford Canal. The Church was founded by Thomas Combe, and his wife Martha, notable names in the history of…
Album | Elizabeth Tighe – Smoke Rises
Amongst the throngs of rising indie musicians throughout the U.S., Arizona might well be one of the most revered in terms of the sheer mass of great roots music coming from the state. Whether it be an Americana amalgamation this…
Album | Matt Townsend – The Drifter and the Dream (Part 1)
Perhaps not unlike the trailblazing icon Dylan himself, Asheville, North Carolina’s own Matt Townsend has decidedly performed a steady two-step past the acoustic basis upon which he originally stood in a move to effectively expand his sound. Once again not…
Album | Michael Van and the Movers – A Little More Country
Taking cues from country, folk, rock, bluegrass and blues all rolled into one, Americana is arguably the captivating (let alone convenient) face of modern roots music, recently integrating such names as Chris Stapleton and the Drive-By Truckers into the pop…
Album | Saul Losada – Energy
Of all of the genres ever prevalent in music, blues may very well be far and away one of the most scintillating. At the very least, it certainly has the backstory to back it up, in which one would be…