Every once and while I decide to listen to the many albums that get sent our way and I find something, a song, a lyric, a voice, that makes me want to listen to the whole album. Jessica Campbell’s The Anchor and The …
Category: Pop
Jessica Campbell – Gone
Sometimes break up songs come off as simply bitter, almost unnecessarily so. There is so much anger, heartbreak and sadness associated with a significant life change like that, especially when the feelings are one sided. Jessica Campbell’s “Gone” is an example of an …
Being Buffalo – Start the Fire EP
An EP has to be pretty exceptional for me to devote a review to it. Usually I prefer to give the “hey check this out” quick mention in the context of another post. But from first listen of Being Buffalo you will hear …
Free Music Friday! Great Divide – Great Divide
I haven’t been this excited about a Free Music Friday yet. Great Divide is a big, jazzy, soul band from Chicago, one whose goal is to bridge the “great divide” between the different genres of music out there today (their words, not mine). …
Coming Soon: Josh Turner, Coyote Armada, and Larkin Dodgen
I’ve been a fan of Josh Turner, the YouTube guitar genius, for years now. He is now a student at Butler University and posted a few exciting announcements, including a new college band of his. As cool as Coyote Armada might be, I’m …
Treetop Flyers – Things Will Change
We’ve been hearing a lot about a a new band coming out of England called Treetop Flyers. Now, if Stephen Stills pops into your head, you’re not alone. But don’t be fooled into thinking that this sounds like 70s folk. It does not. …
Free Music Friday! Bandito Folk
Bandito Folk is the fun name of a group of Australian musicians putting out some awesome free folk music. It’s a little bit like Fleet Foxes in its complexity and a little like Bon Iver with its high vocals, but it doesn’t really …
The Riverside – The Riverside
Recently, thanks to bands like The Lumineers and The Civil Wars, we’ve seen a new sub-genre of music becoming very popular. I’d call it minimalist folk, you may call it pop-folk, others might just call it folk music. One of the newest examples …
Fruition – “Wasting Away”
Fruition is one of those bands that it’s hard to categorize. It’s a little bluegrass (mandolin!), it’s a little bit folk, a little bit pop, a little bit of something else really good. Anyway, here’s “Wasting Away”, one of those songs that everyone …
Bethesda – The Reunion
Bethesda and Mammoth Cave Studio and Cauliflower Audio, 2013. Bethesda: http://bethesdaband.com Starting in Kent, Ohio (the first reason to love them and listen) Bethesda will sound mighty familiar if you’re a fan of Ear to the Ground. And if you’re not a fan …
