Folk

Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

Sweetness Follows: R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People at 30

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Andy Kaufman, Automatic For The People, Bill Berry, Drive, Everybody Hurts, Kate Pierson, KRS One, Man on the Moon, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Montgomery Clift, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Scott Litt

Looking back on a timeless time capsule of an album

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Experimental Folk Instrumental 

Glenn Jones is a One-Man Guitar Army

October 4, 2022October 4, 2022 Brad Cohan 0 Comments American Primitive, Bill Orcutt, Cul-de-Sac, Daniel Bachman, Elizabeth Cotten, Glenn Jones, guitar, John Fahey, John Jackson, Piedmont Blues, Piedmont Guitar, Thrill Jockey

On Vade Mecum, the guitar maestro and John Fahey disciple perfects a style: his own  

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Bruce Folk North Americana Rock 

Reason to Believe: Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska at 40

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Atlantic City, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Highway Patrolman, Johnny 99, Mansion on the Hill, My Father's House, Nebraska, Open All Night, Reason to Believe, Used Cars

Looking back on an album of “absurd intimacy”

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Blues Dylan Folk Rock 

Not Dark Yet: Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind at 25

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1997, 25th Anniversary, Bob Dylan, Cold Irons Bound, Daniel Lanois, Dirt Road Blues, Down In The Groove, Empire Burlesque, Highlands, Infidels, Knocked Out Loaded, Love Sick, Lovesick, Not Dark Yet, Saved, Shot of Love, Time Out of Mind, U2

Looking back on a legend reclaiming his legacy

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Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

Let the Golden Age Begin: Beck’s Sea Change at 20

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, Beck, Beck Hansen, DGC Records, Dust Brothers, Lost Cause, Mellow Gold, Midnite Vultures, Mutations, Nigel Godrich, Odelay, Paper Tiger, Sea Change, The Golden Age

How a broken-hearted Mr. Hansen expressed himself pastorally

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Folk Punk 

Gogol Bordello: Coming to Terms with the Era of the End of Eras 

September 18, 2022September 18, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments 2022, Agnostic Front, Cooking Vinyl, Eugene Hütz, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Gorilla Biscuits, Green Day, Jello Biafra, Joe Lally, Les Claypool, Primus, Quicksand, Rival Schools, Roger Miret, Solidaritine, Tre Cool, Ukraine, Walter Schreifels

Frontman Eugene Hütz talks about the band’s new album Solidaritine and the ongoing war in his Ukrainian homeland

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Experimental Folk Heavy Metal 

Heilung: Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow in the 10th Century

September 14, 2022September 14, 2022 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Black Metal, Bo Diddley, Drif, Edith Tudor-Hart, folk, Heilung, Krzysztof Penderecki, Pink Floyd, Season of Mist, Soviet Union, The Beatles, The Who, United States

The Northern European folk-metal collective have made the first truly great album to emerge from the Neo-Primtive Movement

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Folk Indie Rock Pop Rock 

LISTEN: Sean Ono Lennon Presents “Circles” by Zack Rosen

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 Ron Hart 2 Comments Chimera Music, Circles, EP, New York City, Sean Lennon, Singles, Tongues Unknown, Zack Rosen

New single from the late NYC songwriter/musician drops ahead of posthumous EP release

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Folk North Americana Rock Soul 

The Secret Stash of Earl McGrath

August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, David Johansen, Earl McGrath, Hall and Oates, James Taylor, Jim Carroll, Joan Didion, Joe Hagan, Joni Mitchell, Mick Jagger, Pat Thomas, Rolling Stones

Diving into the treasured closet of a music biz bon vivant

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Folk Indie Rock Rock 

Logan Farmer Shares Video For New Single “Silence or Swell”

August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments A Mold For The Bell, Andrei Rublev, Colorado, Janus Films, Logan Farmer, Olga Tokarczuk, Silence or Swell, Western Vinyl

New LP, A Mold For The Bell, out October 14th via Western Vinyl

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Blues Folk Rock Zep 

Robert Plant’s Renewed Reality: Dreamland at 20

July 25, 2022August 4, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment 2002, 20th Anniversary, Alison Krauss, Dreamland, Led Zeppelin, Mercury Records, Robert Plant

The former Led Zeppelin frontman’s 2002 return as a solo act found him honoring his musical heroes

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Films Folk Pop 

The Anatomy of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”

July 15, 2022July 15, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments Hallelujah, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen A Journey A Song, Jeff Buckley, Joe Cocker, John Cale, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Shrek, Sony Pictures Classics

A new documentary by filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller charts the unlikely success of Cohen’s signature song

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Folk Indie Rock 

LISTEN: Milan McAlevey Hangs With The Griz

July 14, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Admiral of the State of Maine, Maine, Me and the Griz, Milan McAlevey, Nick Stumpf, The Walkmen, Walter Martin

The lead single off the Walkmen-affiliated Maine artist’s lost solo LP is a tribute to an unorthodox mentor

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Folk Rock 

Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys: Arlo Guthrie at 75

July 10, 2022July 10, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Alice’s Restaurant, Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, American Folk, Arlo Guthrie, folk, Massachusetts, Stockbridge, Woodstock, Woody Guthrie

Looking back on the long career of a legendary American son

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Country and/or Western Folk Gospel North Americana 

Mary Gauthier: Songs of Hope and Love from the Eye of the Storm

June 15, 2022June 15, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments 2022, Danny Mitchell, Dark Enough to See the Stars, Juan Solorzano, Mary Gauthier, Nashville, recovery, Thirty Tigers

“I’m a writer, but there’s no mandate for me to write songs about my memories or personal experiences”

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