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Jonathan Richman Surrenders To 70

May 14, 2021May 14, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 70th Birthday, Asa Brebner, Boston, David Robinson, Jerry Harrison, Roadrunner, The Modern Lovers. Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground

Celebrate this milestone birthday of the Boston bard by paying closer attention to his solo catalogue

Alternative Rock Folk North Americana

Maia Sharp: Sister of Mercy

May 13, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, Bonnie Raitt, Cher, Crooked Crown, Edwin McCain, Lisa Loeb, Maia Sharp, Mercy Rising, Terri Clark, The Chicks, Trisha Yearwood

The Nashville songwriter goes deep and personal on her stirring new album

Blues Folk Gospel Irish jazz

Van Morrison’s Pandemic Blues

May 11, 2021May 11, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 2 Comments 2021, Aldous Snow, BMG, Facebook, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Latest Record Project Volume 1, Russell Brand, Spotify, Twitter, Van Morrison

The Irishman airs his grievances and alienates fans on Latest Record Project Volume 1

Folk jazz Psychedelics Rock Soul

Dave Mason: Feelin’ Alright At 75

May 10, 2021May 13, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Bob Dylan, Dave Mason, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Jimi Hendrix, Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, Michael Jackson, Traffic. Feelin' Alright

With tour dates on the horizon, the legendary Traffic guitarist is ready to get back on the road

Folk Indie Rock

WATCH: “Down” by Emily Rodgers

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2021, Emily Rodgers, I Will Be Gone, Kramer, Shimmy Disc

The new album, I Will Be Gone, comes out tomorrow, April 16, on the revitalized Shimmy-Disc imprint

Folk Punk Roots Soul

War Ensemble

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 j. poet 1 Comment folk, Los Angeles, Nina Simone, Simple Syrup, Sunny War, Tracy Chapman

On her excellent new album, Sunny War creates folk music without limits

Folk jazz

They Locked Up The Wrong Man

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Avalanche, Hallelujah, Isle of Wight, Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate

Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Love and Hate at 50

Alternative Rock Folk Irish Pub Rock

Raising A Glass To Hothouse Flowers

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Home, Hothouse Flowers, Ireland, Irish, Liam O’ Maonlai, London Records, Mother Records, People, Songs From The Rain, U2

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with one of Ireland’s most underrated rock bands

Folk

Small Talk On MacDougal Street

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 j. poet 1 Comment 2021, 38 MacDougal, Barry McGuire, David Crosby, Delmark Records, Fred Neil, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, John Sebastian, Paul Kantner, Peter Childs, The Holy Modal Rounders, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Tim Hardin, Vince Martin

Digging on a previously unreleased session from an enigmatic Greenwich Village folk hero

adblock Experimental Folk Rock

Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century: 100 Years of Popular Music, Renewed and Reinvented

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments Big Star, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Chumbawamba, Crowded House, Holy Modal Rounders, Peter Stampfel, Peter Stampfel's 20th Century, The Beatles, The Spice Girls

An exclusive chat with the American folk legend about his ambitious salute to pop’s first hundred years

Folk Pop

Hello Darkness: Simon & Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence Turns 55

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 1966, Art Garfunkel, Chromatics, Disturbed, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Joe Osborn, Larry Knechtel, Paul Simon, Red House Painters, Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence, The Sound of Silence, The Wrecking Crew, Tom Wilson, Vinnie Bell

The folk rock duo’s second album was the one that saved them, and us

Art Pop Electronics Experimental Folk Hip Hop Indie Rock

Don Giovanni Records’ Quest To Share Honest Cultural Narratives Forges On

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Bad Moves, Don Giovanni Records, Marissa Paternoster, Modern Hut, Moor Mother, Supercrush, Teenage Halloween

Don Giovanni co-founder Joe Steinhardt on cultivating narrative truth, the label’s plans for 2021 and his new album with Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster

Folk Noise Rock

Bob Hillman: Making Noise With Ghosts

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments Bob Hillman, Bob Hillman & Spooky Ghost, Gerry Leonard, Inside and Terrified, San Francisco, Suzanne Vega

He may be Inside and Terrified, but he remains one of San Francisco’s most prolific songwriters

Folk

Got a One Way Ticket to the Promised Land: The Ghost of Tom Joad at 25

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Brody Kenny 0 Comments 1995, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Rage Against the Machine, The Ghost of Tom Joad

What Bruce Springsteen’s late 1995 folk masterpiece means in the modern day

Folk Indie Rock

Dust Bowl Faeries: Soulful Music Born in the Days of the Pandemic

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 j. poet 1 Comment Dust Bowl Faeries, Hudson Valley, Ryder Cooley, The Plague Garden, Upstate NY

The otherworldly Hudson Valley group won’t let a plague break their stride

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