I have never “sat on” an album so long. What I mean is that I just couldn’t find the words for what this remarkable band Bears of Legend and this album Good morning, Motherland have come to mean to me. It is an …
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Hem – Departure and Farewell
Sometimes a title is all you need to understand an album. Jason Mraz’s Love is a Four Letter Word or John Fullbright’s From The Ground Up or the beautifully titled Rappalachia by bluegrass/hip-hop group Gangstagrass. With their first album in years, Hem has done that …
Le Wrens – Don’t Forget Me EP
My biggest regret from the Noah Gundersen show in Pittsburgh last month was not meeting his younger siblings Abby and Jonny. It is Jonny and fellow sibling Lizzy Gundersen who are the key artists in Le Wrens, a Seattle-based folk-country act that should …
David Ramirez – The Rooster EP
A few years ago Matthew Mayfield told me to listen to David Ramirez. For some reason I must have had cotton balls or something in my ears when I gave him that first listen. I just didn’t “get” what he was doing. Then …
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 …
Nightlands – Oak Island
From the lyric “I’d like to invite you… for just a little while…” the listener of Nightlands new Oak Island feels comfortable and on a journey. There’s a fantastic layering of instruments and vocals that is harmonic, full yet light, and overall very …
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 …
Wes Kirkpatrick – Wes Kirkpatrick
Not all acoustic singer songwriters are created equal. Because there are so many in the music world today, we spend a lot of time sorting through the ordinary and the exceptional. I’m here to say that Wes Kirkpatrick is in that category of …
Fear of Men – Early Fragments
Kanine Records, 2013. Fear of Men: http://kaninerecords.com/fear-of-men This whole music adventure began as an art school project for Jessica Weiss. When Daniel Falvey saw some of her ambient track and short film projects, his attention was caught and a friendship began. The two …
Dawes – Stories Don’t End
We all know that bands like Dawes are rare. There are a lot of bands and a lot of good bands that you can put on headphones, drown out the world and pay attention to the music and the way it moves you. …
