Mark Linkous took his own life. Another rare talent gone. It’s always sad when someone commits suicide, but it’s also hard to comprehend how someone with so much talent could not find anything in this life worth living for. Unless he has unreleased material, this will make Dark Night of the Soul his final...
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The Middle East are not from the Middle East, they are from Townsville, Australia. They broke up in 2008. Now they are back together. This is a good thing! The band crosses many genres, but I’ll just be lazy and call them indie folk. They are one of the bands I’m looking forward to...
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House With No Home was one of the best folk albums to come out in 2008; maybe even in the past 5 years. Horse Feathers, a band from Portland, are addictive with their whispered folk tunes. Their new album, Thistled Spring, will be out just in time for those of you that like to...
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Last year’s To Willie (a full album of Willie Nelson covers) was one of my favorite albums of the year. It was also the album that got me into Matthew Houck aka Phosphorescent. Before that particular album, his material just sounded boring to me. I even saw Bon Iver open for him one night...
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After listening to Joanna Newsom‘s first album since 2006′s Ys, I can honestly say I will never listen to it all the way through again. That’s not to say it isn’t an amazing, original work of art, but at a run-time of over 2 hours, it’s just not something I will have the patience...
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What is it about this English indie folk band that has people loving them and critics hating them? This is an album that people are raving about…in blogs, on Facebook and in person at shows. I have heard great things about these guys for quite some time now (this album was released overseas last...
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Female vocalists singing like Sarah McLachlan over lazy, rainy day electronic instrumentation are a dime a dozen these days. You have the ones who do it right, Bat for Lashes and Lykke Li, and those who just disappear into the crowded scene. Holly Miranda is one of the former. Her latest solo album, The...
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When my girlfriend, now wife, and I went to see Ray LaMontagne perform a solo acoustic show at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, we didn’t know if there would be an opening act or not. We were pleasantly surprised when this skinny, freckled, blond, Midwestern girl took the stage and belted out some of...
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