Posts in category Folk

Canada can claim home for yet another great band, Great Lake Swimmers.  If you haven’t heard of them before, they have actually been around for …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDINJAB0KBY1 Jake Bugg – Giving Away Saffron The Saturday at Reading Festival wasn’t particularly easy on me.  I had just missed the news that Green …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCI1IW1aRP01 It all began with a copy of my friend’s DVD boxset of OGWT (The Old Grey Whistle Test) which contained some brilliant performances by …

With stamping feet, dueling banjos and buckets of passion the triumphant sound of Mumford and Sons return to their people with the follow up to their 2009 number one …

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njNisvXkusM1 There are parallel bands that come up because a great deal of spare creativity. Others because an unfortunate deal of boredom. This time I …

It seems like the Southern American sunbeams have been heating Cat Power’s creativity and have brought  her usual folk-pop melodies closer to a happy wave. …

Fanfarlo‘s sound is just delicious, careful, delicate. As it is their way of playing their instruments. Folk, pop, electronic…whatever you can think of is mixed …

When you watch a band over a few years who continue to grow and produce amazing music, it is an absolute pleasure when a new song it …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqAZLhICd0o1 The Hill and Wood – The Call With this incredibly beautiful video directed by Charlotte Hornsby and Paul Wheatley, the Hill and Wood are …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvIw9Xh-p8I1 Hello everyone! I know it’s been a long, and unannounced hiatus, but I’m finally back and will be actively posting once again. For the …