If you’re looking for someone to blame for the new album by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, A Beginner’s Mind, blame Bryce Dessner of The National. After all, it was his house in New York’s Catskills mountains where the two spent a month watching movies at night, then spent the next day writing songs about those films...
Faced with the harsh realities of the impending global pandemic, Mackenzie Shivers hunkered down with her husband and friend at the latter’s Cape Cod home. For the next three months, in the midst of uncertainty, she flourished. Without her trademark piano, Shivers partnered with her heirloom guitar, Murphy, to write the songs that comprise Rejection Letter. Inspired...
Ajay Mathur has lived a life worthy of a motion picture. A Switzerland import by way of New Delhi, he grew up surrounded by music and the arts. A painter, singer, and songwriter, Mathur found inspiration in meeting his idols—the likes of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and the Beatles—while coming up in India. Since, he’s topped charts...
by Duncan Martin • 11 September 2021 • Comments Off on Session | Katie Grace Harris – Hard Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlfZ2Cj_5s0 Today’s session comes from emerging artist Katie Grace Harris, accompanied by Alex Duncalf on cello, and her version of the 19th century song ‘Hard Times’. Katie traces her folk roots to singing along as a girl with her Dad as they...
Photo by Micah Hagen Mikey James’ artists path has meandered and wounded through a number of idiosyncratic lives. From developing demos on a 4-track in the early 90s to drumming with indie rock wonders Longwave, James has lived the life of a bonafide troubadour. The ebb and flow of his career has now led him to another...
Photo from artists’ Facebook page Nikki Wozzo & The Bad Whiskey bring bonafide outlaw attitude to the West Coast. Alongside bassist Ray Miller, Wozzo recalls the likes of ZZ Top on one hand and the Brothers Comatose on the other; their sound is blues-drenched, gritty, and nostalgic Americana. The duo banded with a couple of other talented...
Paula Standing describes her new LP, The More I Give, as “a brief history of me.” Cut from the same tapestry as the likes of Dar Williams or Shawn Colvin, Standing’s folk is blended with subtle pop sensibilities and a whole lot of knowing—about life, and how she’s living it. Her artistic roots are grounded in magical...
Photo courtesy of Planetary Group Mark Jowett is Plain Mister Smith. A purveyor of the consummately offbeat, Jowett’s “Smith” project has enabled him to develop no-holds-barred indie pop. Replete with crunching guitar tones, dithering percussion, and a collection of captivating vocal structures, ‘The Rat’ is as unconventional as it is captivating. Featuring Jordan Klassen, Smith’s ‘Rat’ is...
One of the last gigs I went to pre-lockdown, in November 2019, was the magnificent Holy Moly and the Crackers in York. On the merchandise table afterwards, alongside the standard array of CDs and T-shirts, was a solitary copy of a book called Drunk Folk Stories bearing the familiar name of Beans on Toast. I didn’t buy...
by Duncan Martin • 15 August 2021 • Comments Off on Session | Rookling – Cases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9oG-fkVNg Today’s session comes from Rookling (aka Jem Bosatta) with ‘Cases’. Originally from England, Jem has been putting roots in Berlin for the past few years and we caught up with him as part of a trip back to his old home. During the pandemic...
More than 600 guests converged at Los Angeles’ Music Center Saturday for Gold House’s third annual Gold Gala, one...
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