With the addition of Drake to the established sound of Damien, we definitely move to the aforementioned gothic part – these songs are just small vignettes of small town life…
Category: Best New Music
You could say that Joseph Scott (and crew) provide, in my opinion, the definition of the Michigan “folk” scene
Haven’t heard it yet, no problem. Streamed a bit on MySpace, but you never know, right? Well how to decide if you want the new Theodore album “Hold You Like A Lover” in two easy steps.
What has surfaced is an indie folk-pop album that literally came out of nowhere for me. In a way that you sit there and you actually try to sing along to the songs…
hitide.lotide is Nate Gruber and his talented friends and they bring you acoustic folk that is soo fragile you fear it just might break if not held close…
Matthew Ryan is doing something that I really like. Taking his songs and giving us intimate and unique versions of them by recording them in (so far) intimate and unique locations.
Bands with long overly wordy song titles. I don’t know who started this…Well, I found one place where these bastardy named songs work.
Just something in the form of Julie Fader’s “Outside In” album that was released from Hand Drawn Dracula this past September. It is a great album that I find comparisons of Julie’s vocals to…
Being a huge fan of this style of singer songwriter performance – and especially Will Johnson and Jason Molina..frick, match made in indie heaven. Highly Recommended.
I am sure it is not a secret, but most of you might now that I am a huge fan of Matthew Ryan. There are the immediate reasons, he has many of those late night hushed songs that just hit home for me.
…a penchant for providing me with EPs of dark Americana tinged singer songwriter projects. The third and final installment of his “Apocalypse” series…falls into place quite nicely.
The new Matthew Ryan album is growing on me something fierce. Look for a full post on the new album soon, but I just wanted to mention it.
The world is small and déjà vu and/or coincidences happen all the time. Let me entertain you with a few facts that may seem not so much coincidental as simply true…
I am clearly a fan of all things that consist of the unhurried tempo, but it still has to be good. Sometimes when you listen, it happens to be great.
Despite what you think, instead of this being a sparkling review of a great micro brew, it is […]