Singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante is probably best known in indie rock circles for his time as a member of Little Joy and Los Hermanos. Easy Sound Records released Amarante’s solo debut, Cavalo, a couple of months ago, and the material on the album […]
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When the Los Angeles, CA-based singer/songwriter Moses Sumney was growing up, he avidly wrote songs but he was so painfully shy that he would hide them inside his mattress. Sumney moved out of his parents’ […]
Back in January, 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. Of course, until then, it was […]
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 […]
After the 2009 release of the Honey Trees‘ Wake the Earth EP, the duo of Becky Filip and Jacob Wick spent four years writing the material that would wind up on their recently released debut full-length, Bright Fire. […]
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 […]
Hannah Thiem is a producer and violinist whose music is influenced by a deep appreciation of electronic and ambient soundscapes, as well as Eastern European, Nordic and Middle Eastern music. “Phavet”(pronounced Fa-vey) is the first single […]
Comprised of Jamie Lefler and Robert Cepeda, the Los Angeles, CA-based duo of DWNTWN originally got their start when both Lefler and Cepeda were getting over really bad breakups — interestingly and perhaps awkwardly Lefler had been with Cepeda’s […]
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 […]
Released last year to little fanfare, the Wild‘s Dreams Are Maps managed to combine elements of the troubadour tradition – songs based around storytelling but delivers with the primal, defiant fury of punk rock. Clocking in at […]
Singer/songwriter Kwesi K is of Ghanian heritage and has spent time in Alaska and Ohio, and as an artist, he’s been praised by critics and bloggers for a sound that uses elements across the African […]
The desert city of Marfa, TX is 62 miles from the Mexican border, and the city has developed a reputation for it’s minimalist art scene, and was interestingly enough, where most of the most disturbing […]
Warp Records released Silver Wilkinson, Bibio’s most recent full-length release early last year, and the material managed to be summery and psychedelic in a way that was reminiscent of the likes of Nick Drake and interestingly enough, Junip. “Dye the Water […]