What’s not to love about Siskin River? Honestly, try not to immediately fall head over heels in love with the sisters that make up the band. Hailing from Australia, the duo has been on the rise with constant touring, energetic shows, and even living …
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Guest Post: David Demaree on Matthew Mayfield at Pittsburgh’s Club Cafe
Mathew Mayfield is a serious man. Armed with captivating lyrics and an acoustic guitar he gave Pittsburgh’s Club Café quite a show this November. For almost an hour and a half Mayfield stood below red stage lights and performed. And he performed well. …
The Misty Mountain String Band
Stop what you are doing now and go listen to The Misty Mountain String Band’s new “Brownsboro” album. This is not only a perfect band, but a perfectly curated album. Some bands are made of people who decide to play instruments and it …
Hinterlands – Self titled EP – Amazing New Zealand folk duo
Words like “stunning” and “gorgeous” just seem to roll off the tongue when listening to Hinterlands, a folk duo from New Zealand, whose debut EP is nothing short of amazing. From the first listen, I couldn’t help but be stunned by their harmonies, …
Hiss Golden Messenger – The Lateness of Dancers
As you may well know, an interesting band name will get me every time. Hiss Golden Messenger avoided my attention for a long time because I have difficulty reading, but it’s now in the running for my album of 2014 with their stellar album, The …
Joe Pug – Downbound Train –
The next time one of your friends tries to tell you “they just don’t make music like they used to” you shut them up with this song right here. Joe Pug is a songwriter and brilliant performer. This song is dripping with emotion. …
Brennan Stoelb–Great Lakes and Great Deserts
I am a firm believer that location can have an incredible influence on an artist’s music. The places you go, the places you have been impact you, inspire you. Knowing a diverse range of lands and lifestyles changes things. Brennan Stoelb has lived …
Hiss Golden Messenger – Drum
Looking forward to talking more about this album next week, but here’s a little sample of what’s to come with Hiss Golden Messenger and the last track on the album The Lateness of Dancers. It’s a phenomenal singer-songwriter album and one poised to make …
The Tins–a brotherhood of sound
The things which come out of Buffalo, New York tend to either be really great (i.e.buffalo wings) or really awful (i.e. crime, segregation, weather). The Tins are of the former variety. When I was a punk teenager deep in the upstate NY metal …
Five (more) singer songwriters you need to hear in 2014
We get submissions from every possible genre from every nearly every continent on the planet. So in order to bring you (beloved reader) the best of the best we have to have discerning ears. These singer songwriters are some of the best we’ve …
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