Kíla‘s the kind of band that’s lived on the edge of musical scenes their whole lives. They’re Irish and they can play the hell out of Irish trad music, but their albums have spun off into Afro-pop explorations, or Chinese […]
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Happy Father’s Day from Hearth Music! In honor of fathers, we’re reposting a Hearth Music blog about fathers and sons. I’ve been a fan of folk songwriter Joe Crookston since his early albums back when he lived in Seattle. His […]
James Vincent McMorrow. Early in the Morning. 2011. Vagrant Records. Whisper-folk singer James Vincent McMorrow has produced not only one of the sweetest albums of 2011, but also one of the more intriguing. The Dublin-born songwriter holed up in […]
Victory Music Review. June 2011.Next Gen Folk Column Dyann Arthur and the MusicBox Project’s Americana Women Seattle folklorist and filmmaker Dyann Arthur has been putting countless miles on her car and traveling cross-country to document the music of Americana women, […]
There are jazzy undercurrents in folk music, and folkie undercurrents in jazz, and sometimes there’s just music that gleefully bounces between both genres like a pinball. Whatever the case, here are four excellent new CDs that mix folk and jazz […]
Frank Fairfield’s a strange success story. Plucked from the streets of LA to open a Fleet Foxes tour in 2009, he seems to be from another era but still manages to connect to hipsters and folkies alike. No one would […]
Victory Music Review. May 2011.Next Gen Folk Column Joy Kills Sorrow has been one of the hottest young folk bands in the US following their sophomore album, Darkness Sure Becomes this City, on Signature Sounds. This notoriety comes from […]
The full title of this road-warrior ode to Americana is It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, & The Search for the Next American Music. It’s an ambitious title, no doubt, but music journalist and author Amanda Petrusich has done […]
Ive been totally enchanted by this new album from one of my favorite singers, Leah Abramson. She brought an eerie, other-worldly sound to her old band The Crooked Jades, and just dropped an album, under the monikor The Abramson Singers, […]
Oliver Swain: John Henry I used to book the Folklife Festival in Seattle and it always saddened me to learn that the most amazing Canadian roots music bands could be living and performing just three hours North in Vancouver, and […]
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