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Catching Up With Horse Feathers

By Kristen Blanton at 9:00 AM on May 11, 2012

It is the delicate nature of Justin Ringle’s voice that creates space for the music of his music collective, Horse Feathers, whose fingerpicked guitars, building tracks and potent material has drawn comparisons to Nick Drake and Fleet Foxes. We caught up with Ringle to discuss his latest album, the baroque-pop-filled Cynic’s New Year, which was released last month through Kill Rock Stars. Ringle brought us up to speed on the album’s themes, the set of collaborators featured on the album and Portland’s influence on his music.... read more

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14 Musicians Reveal The First Record They Ever Purchased

By Kristen Blanton at 9:09 AM on May 3, 2012

We asked 14 musicians to recall the first record they ever remember purchasing and how they see it's influenced their own music. read more

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Horse Feathers: Cynic's New Year

By Adam Vitcavage at 3:08 PM on April 25, 2012

Justin Ringle and his band of merry musicians collectively known as Horse Feathers have put forth a very inspiring baroque pop album for their forth release. Cynic’s New Year is filled with layer upon layer of instruments allowing the band a grander scale that presents the band as a happy-go-lucky Oregon band. Yet, if you listen beneath the slides, horns and whistles and bells, there is a murky undertone hiding in Ringle’s lyrics. read more

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Newport Folk Festival Announces 2010 Schedule

By Corey Humphress at 10:00 AM on June 30, 2010

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

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Horse Feathers: House with No Home

By Matt Fink at 4:21 PM on September 30, 2008

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

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