At a glance, the title of Yonder Mountain String Band’s new album, Get Yourself Outside, seems like an unambiguous call to action. But it’s not referencing the great outdoors: These songs are meant to encourage reflection and a conscientious shift […]
A rare treat in today’s genre-diverse landscape, Appalachian Road Show is dedicated not only to playing music that’s in keeping with traditional bluegrass but also to highlighting the historical and cultural origins of its namesake region. The band chose this […]
They say “Practice, practice, practice” is what gets a person to Carnegie Hall. Well, Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek each have decades of practice under their belts, so it might come as a surprise to know that this week marked […]
Kansas City, Missouri’s Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear might be a duo that’s connected by way of a parent-child relationship, but, in some ways, it might be better if the world at large didn’t know that. It can be so easy […]
There’s a lightness that comes with acoustic folk music. Sounds ring out, fade naturally, and often have an openness to them that makes the whole style feel more breathable. Add this sentiment to the sprightly and delicate songs jointly composed […]
In a lot of ways, live reviews are meant to serve as a hybrid, first hand recollection and motivator for generating interest in the next performance and overall tour of whomever the focus is currently on. This is no different, […]
Almost as often, and with as much need-to-know punch as the roadside billboards flooding their long tour routes, bands are told they need to have “that thing no one else has” to catch their big break. Folk rockers the Wild […]
It was bright and clear but bone chillingly cold during the latter half of the weekend. The idea of standing outside among that freeze for any length of time, let alone more than an hour, seems an act of recklessness; […]
Unlike the first half of the saying, “In like a lion,” last night in the Lower East Side of New York City saw March starting off on a rather calm note. A warm evening with virtually no wind, the setting […]
When someone utters an occasion as being one appropriate for “dancing on a grave,” it’s not all that unexpected that the implied sentiment is that of contempt or morbid glee in the face of another’s passing. Neither of these thoughts […]
