Despite her dedication to a pure and uncluttered reading of traditional song Shirley Collin’s Barbican show is a lavishly staged affair. A huge screen shows films and animations for each song. A narrator gives context and history to the music…
An ongoing trend in Americana is a revival of a particular edge straddling the line between country, blues, and rock and roll, reminiscent of artists along the lines of John Mellencamp or Chris Stapleton. Straight out of the capital city…
Riding the line between old-school folk and country straight into a heap of psychedelia is Australian singer-songwriter Tom Woodward. Sonically speaking, Woodward’s sound lies somewhere between Donovan, Campbell, and the soundtrack to outer space. Previously, when For Folk’s Sake had…
Gabrielle Aplin hasn’t been out much of late. Penning new songs and reinvigorating her own independent record label – Never Fade Records – understandably puts a crimp in your gigging life. Thankfully the new initiative seems to be taking off…
Tom Woodward is a heck of a guy. This goes without saying for fans of the fruit-harvesting, high school music theory text-pilfering, South Wales woods tent-living ways of the artist, but for those just catching up, Woodward is an artist…
Bozeman, Montana—the birthplace of rock stars. Didn’t sound convincing? Perhaps the darkly Americana of KING ROPES could help change your mind. Akin to something between Shovels & Rope, Neil Young in his Crazy Horse era, and Mitski, the band is…
Alien Angel Super Death—if that isn’t a metal album title, then what is it? Perhaps with a swig of whiskey one can successfully label it folk right on the first go. Wherein Swiss artist Verena von Horsten’s latest record fails…
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…
“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…
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…