Oh how pretty is the middle of June: The EarToTheGround Music 2015 Playlist is HERE! With credit to Noah Gundersen for borrowing his lyric in the headline, a project many months in the making has arrived. We present to you a 13-song playlist …
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YouTube Gem: Aviation and the War – “Haste”
We have a review of Aviation and the War’s album coming soon. But to hold you off until then, we wanted to show you this incredible video. It shows how minimalist rock can really pull some powerful punches. It’s not the size of …
Guest Album Review: Jennifer Brooke on Lucy & La Mer’s Little Spoon EP
The west coast group Lucy & La Mer, featuring lead folk singer and songwriter Lucy LaForge, debuted their six-track EP titled Little Spoon early this April. The self-released short stack of emotionally-charged songs explores themes from every day life to romance gone sour. …
Hocking Hills Ohio Music Festival – May 22-24
If you’re looking to get into the festival spirit this spring, look no further than Ohio’s Hocking Hills for a family friendly weekend of bluegrass, Americana, and roots country music. The event will be Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24th. The Coal Town Rounders …
Guest Album Review by Nikky Shah: Tom Francis – From Up There – Guitar-based narrative songs with meaning
Tom Francis is a singer/songwriter from Australia who recently released his latest album “From Up There” as a follow up to his debut record “Wishing Well”, both drawing strong influences from folk and country music. His latest album continues on a similar progression …
Guest Review: Nikky Shah on Elijah Ocean- Bring It All In
Elijah Ocean is an artist from the great Los Angeles Area resembling a modern mix of folk and country in his latest album release “Bring It All In”, similar to the likes of Ryan Adams, Neil Young and even Noah Gundersen, Ocean holds …
Guest Review: Hannah of rockmycommute on Audrey & Chris
Looking for something folky but not too bluegrass or country? This is the perfect album. I loved every precious second of the seven short tracks on this self-titled debut from charming duo Audrey Snow and Chris Gillin-Schwartz, known simply as Audrey and Chris. …
Guest Album Review: Hannah of rockmycommute on Shivon Coelho’s Tales of a Songbird
The cover of Shivon Coelho’s 2014 Release is charming with pink text and a photo of Shivon in a frilly dress (check out the links below to see!). The title Tales of a Songbird is also lighthearted, and this whimsy carries through to …
Album Review: Lac La Belle – A Friend Too Long – Thoughtful, intelligent Americana
It’s tempting to call Lac La Belle’s sound “good, old fashioned Americana.” Shades of country and old time music, with gentle notions of an amorphous “backcountry.” It’s great music that’s sure to find a lot of fans among readers of our site. You …
Album Review: The Orchardist – Dirt on Your Hands
Some artists have this incredible ability to sing every lyric as if it has eternal significance and the Orchardist is one of those bands. If you want some indication of the caliber of humans involved in this endeavor, check out their purpose from …
