Lucius. Lucius EP iLoveLucius and The Orchard, 2012. Lucius: http://ilovelucius.com/ Lucius is a band with a sound as eclectic as their beginning. While the quintet hails from Brooklyn, New York, the individual members come from all over, the US including one from our very …
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors – Good Light
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors have been floating at the edge of our collective music consciousness for a while now. We first heard about them in the middle of last year, heard them on The Music Bed’s Christmas compilation, and then heard that, …
Hannah Fair – Open Road
Describing Hannah Fair’s music as “country” is not a perfect description. She’s more or less a female acoustic singer songwriter. Her influences are clearly based in country, blues, rock, and even at times jazz. Some of her toe tappers could get a honky-tonk …
Matt Pond – The Lives Inside the Lines on Your Hands
Being an east-coaster, there’s a certain spot in my heart for folks like Matt Pond. He blends the cryptic indie lyric style with a raw heart-on-your-sleeve style that tends to resonate with folks who spend a lot of time thinking in their own …
Artist Interview: Tim the Lion Tamer (with reader participation!)
This is a re-run of an interview we did a while ago. We’ve decided to run it again with a new feature. We’re doing a FOLLOW UP INTERVIEW with Tim in the coming days. So ask questions in the comments and we’ll pick …
Cadbury Sisters – Barefoot EP
For me to make an exception to review an EP, it has to be amazing. I mean, it has to take my breath away when I click on the first track and have my jaw on the floor til the end. That was …
Gjallarhorn – Rimfaxe
http://www.gjallarhorn.se/main.html It’s “Get out of your rut!” day here on Ear to the Ground, and I have a fun little review on Rimfaxe, an album by Gjallarhorn, a Nordic band bringing traditional Nordic folk to new ears. The whole thing started when I …
William Fitzsimmons – Find Me To Forgive
For those of you who really haven’t been paying attention to music, here’s a video of William Fitzsimmons singing one of his most honest and saddest songs, “Find Me to Forgive”. Fitzsimmons has distanced himself from every other musician making music today because …
Donavon Frankenreiter – “Shine”
The whole purpose of the YouTube Gem segment is to help people find exceptional music that seems to be slipping through the cracks. Sometimes that’s an undiscovered artist. Often it’s a known artist doing a recording that most of us don’t know exist. …
Moor Hound – Stifled Spirit
Simple, pretty, relatable tunes are what come from the Moor Hound release, Stifled Spirit. Steve Marino brings his sweet sounds from Bloomington, IN, and these sounds are hitting on exactly what the country/folk/Americana genres are producing; good, honest lyrics and palatable instrumentation combining …
