Ravensdale, WA-born and Seattle, WA-based singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile can trace the origins of her music career to her childhood — when she was 8 she performed Johnny Cash‘s “Tennessee Flat Top Box” with her mother […]
Tag: Americana
Profile: Getting to Know Brooklyn’s Animal Years
Getting to Know Brooklyn’s Animal Years, by Natalie Hamingson I was introduced to Animal Years this past June, during their standout set at New Music Seminar. Intrigued by their tight, dance-inducing live show, I wanted to […]
Audio Interview: A Q&A with Los Angeles-Based Indie Rock Sensation, Smoke Season
Featuring Gabrielle Wortman (vocals, keyboards) and Jason Rosen (guitars, backing vocals), the Los Angeles-based (by way of New York) duo Smoke Season have steadily built up both a local and national profile for a unique […]
Live Concert Photography: Honey Island Swamp Band and Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Brooklyn Bowl 5/22/15
Live Concert Photography: Honey Island Swamp Band and Dirty Dozen Brass Band Brooklyn Bowl May 22, 2015 Last week, the summer concert and festival season began in earnest with Summerstage’s fantastic opening night featuring Tedeschi […]
Live Concert Photography: Spirit Family Reunion and Tedeschi Trucks Band at Summerstage 5/18/15
Summerstage, NYC’s largest and free public arts festival turns 30 this year, and to celebrate such a momentous occasion, this year will mark the longest season in the festival as it officially started on Monday […]
Originally formed in 2011 and comprised of Dan Htoo-Levine (guitar, vocals), Thom Brennan (trumpet), and Matt Hines (keyboards), the Boston, MA-based band Dan and The Wildfire originally started out as a indie folk band. However, […]
From talking to dozens upon dozens of musicians, being a musician is tough but being a musician in New York is especially tough – and unless you possess an uncommon amount of moxie and hustle, […]
Over the winter, Eric D. Johnson, best known for his work in Fruit Bats decided to sit down and write an album’s worth of songs over the course of a few weeks. However, at the time, it was […]
When most of his peers were attending college, singer/songwriter Tyler Verhagen took to the road, spending two years on the off-ramps and in the truck stops and 24 hour diners that are part of the […]
Born and raised in Washington DC, and now located in Brooklyn, singer/songwriter Nick Hakim grew up in a household that emphasized musical diversity as he heard soul, hip-hop, go-go, folk music and more – and […]
With the release of their eighth full-length effort, With Light and With Love, Woods continued to cement their recent reputation for experimenting with their sound – their latest album has the band employing the use of […]
If you truly know anything about music, you know that the blues and folk are deeply intertwined – especially when you talk about the early acoustic blues albums. if you don’t believe me, listen to […]
Alana Amram has been in music in some fashion for most of her life as she’s comes from a rather musical family. When Amram was a child, she was known to take naps around the guitar cases […]
Coming from a musical family, based out of Peekskill, NY, Alana Amram has been in music in some fashion for most of her life. By the time Amram was a teenager, she was already a part of NYC’s underground […]
Les Claypool’s latest project, Duo De Twang is essentially, an extremely deconstructed version of some of Claypool’s previous projects —i.e. Primus. In the case of Duo De Twang, their arrangements consist of Claypool on bass and vocals, with frequent […]