Mumford & Sons Announce Additional Stopover Dates With Vampire Weekend, Alabama Shakes
Continuing their weekend festival-type tour started in 2012, Mumford & Sons have announced the five cities where they will bring their Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers: Lewes, U.K.; Simcoe, Ontario; Troy, Ohio; Guthrie, Okla. and St. Augustine, Fla.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsListen to Frightened Rabbit's Pedestrian Verse
Previously announced, Frightened Rabbit will release their fourth studio album titled Pedestrian Verse on February 5. The entire album is currently available to stream through Soundcloud on U.K. The Guardian’s website.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Avett Brothers Announce Additional U.S. Tour Dates
The Avett Brothers announced today additional U.S. tour dates beginning in April. Pre-sale tickets through the band’s email list will be available on Jan. 15, and tickets will go on sale to the public on Jan. 18.... read more
Found in: NewsFolk Legend Doc Watson Recovering After Surgery
Eighty nine-year-old Doc Watson is stable and recovering after taking a fall in his North Carolina home. The famous folk guitarist and banjo player was taken to the hospital, where several other health issues were discovered.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBert Jansch: 1943-2011
Early this morning Scottish folk legend Bert Jansch passed away at a London hospice after a long battle with cancer. Winner of two Lifetime Achievement Awards from the BBC Folk Awards, one for his solo work and one as a member of the British folk rock band Pentangle, he influenced generations of artists with his sound. read more
Found in: Music, NewsLaura Marling Announces New LP
Young folk sensation Laura Marling has announced her third album, A Creature I Don’t Know.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsNew, old artists harmonize at Newport's Folk Festival 50
In the 50 years since the founding of the Newport Folk Festival, it's remarkable to realize just how much the term "folk" has expanded. Back in the old days, so much as plugging in a guitar was enough to brand a folk artist as a traitor of biblical proportions.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSandra McCracken
Sandra McCracken’s Gravity | Love occupies that female-folk position between more obtuse artists like Megan Reilly and the shiny new rootsy pop you find climbing the country charts. Even if you consider 2004’s Best Laid Plans a palatable ride, there are no sonic difficulties hindering her latest album from making a commercial impact. A songwriter’s songwriter, McCracken doesn’t feel the need to personally grace her album covers, nods to her religious faith in subtle lyrical turns, and proves she’s capable of creating Americana to rival recent outings from Tom Petty or The Jayhawks, especially on “Gravity,” “Traincar” and “Portadown Station”—the... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsOld Crow Medicine Show
Any band trafficking in old-timey sounds risks crossing the fine line between celebrating its influences and mummifying them. Working from a musical template that stopped evolving, oh, 70 years ago, OCMS manages to stay on the right side of this line on its sophomore disc. Ketch Secor’s originals sound comfortably at home among the traditional folk, blues and country numbers, and by investing his tunes with a puckish modern sensibility, they manage to avoid sounding mannered or fusty. While it’s unlikely that any of the new material will be mined by future generations the way Secor mines the work of... read more
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