Many of today’s underground bands and singer/songwriters have gone back to the roots of early music and seem intent on carrying the torch passed on by the old-time legends of song. One such artist is the very talented and enchanting […]
For the last several years I have worked as a freelance music journalist, publishing regularly with a handful of publications. Mostly I do it for the press passes to shows and free releases for review, etc, because I am a complete music nerd whose tastes include a variety of genres and subgenres. Roots music is one of my favorites, though. And I have done reviews and interviewed a number of today's more worthwhile country, bluegrass, blues, roots rock, rockabilly, psychobilly, folk, folk-punk bands and singer-songwriters.
Many of today’s underground bands and singer/songwriters have gone back to the roots of early music and seem intent on carrying the torch passed on by the old-time legends of song. One such artist is the very talented and enchanting […]
Having recently gotten my hands on the latest album by Michigan’s Frontier Ruckus, Deadmalls & Nightfalls, and having listened to it a number of times in its entirety, I now find myself compelled to offer up some words on it. […]
Portland, Oregon’s five-piece acoustic ensemble Black Prairie, though somewhat of a side project for all involved, has a rather intriguing repertoire of songs, as well as a lineup of seasoned Northwestern songwriters and musicians. Now, I wasn’t exactly privy to […]
From the depths of the one-man band underground there has emerged an undeniably impressive female singer/songwriter — a one-woman band, rather — whose dirty blues and raw country sound is quickly earning her a place among the more notable artists […]
If I were to make a list of the twenty most important singer/songwriters of our time, John Konrad Wert, better known under the moniker Possessed by Paul James, would undoubtedly be among those at the very top, if not the […]
New Zealand born multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Delaney Davidson is certainly no stranger to the international music scene, especially the more obscure corners of it, having contributed to the efforts of a handful of notable bands from around the world, including […]
There are hard working singer/songwriters, and there are singer/songwriters who play their fingers to the bone. The latter are the artists who travel more miles than any human being should have to endure, who do so much on their own […]
Some of the bands and singer/songwriters in the underground music community these days seem to put together projects that are as ephemeral as the luna moth’s lifespan, lasting but for a short time in the obscurity of the scene. These […]
Towards the end of 2009, Erik Petersen, frontman for Philadelphia’s very own gypsy punk trio Mischief Brew, teamed up with Brooklyn’s instrumental gypsy jazz quartet Guignol for a rather impressive collaboration of musical efforts titled “Fight Dirty.” Taking into consideration […]
Madison, Wisconsin’s gothic country duo Lonesome Wyatt and The Minister have just released their fifth full-length album as Those Poor Bastards, “Gospel Haunted.” With eleven ungodly new songs to follow up the very well received “Satan is Watching” album from […]