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Newport Folk Festival Announces 2010 Schedule

George Wein’s annual celebration of all things rootsy, the Newport Folk Festival, is back in 2010 with another solid lineup including the likes of Brandi Carlisle, The Swell Season, Punch Brothers and John Prine. Today, set times for these and all other Newport Folk Festival artists were announced via the event’s website....  read more

Horse Feathers: House with No Home

Portland indie-folk trio stares into the dark Horse Feathers constructs music out of fragile whispers and half-remembered dreams, eagerly filling in the gaps between Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine on the American indie-folk continuum. Led by Justin Ringle, a soft-voiced poet from the rural expanse of Idaho, the trio refines the approach of its 2006 debut, creating songs with more open space, fewer loose ends, and all the metaphorical tangles left intact. The arrangements feel as chilly and evasive as the ghostly barns hovering over a snowy landscape on the album’s cover. Ringle’s conflicted racists and bitter families are...  read more

Horse Feathers

Portland, Ore. duo plays dreamy scrap-folk soundtrack to winter hibernation  read more