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-26 posts tagged "Folk"
Natalie Allton | Friday, September 8, 2023
Jimmy Buffett passed away on the first of this month, and I was sent the headline four separate times by four different people. I’m not ashamed to say I cried. I know I wasn’t the only one. “Parrotheads” — devout fans of Buffett in the same way that “Deadheads” obsess over the Grateful Dead —
Allison Srp | Tuesday, September 5, 2023
“Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)” is the extended version of Noah Kahan’s album “Stick Season” and was released on June 9. While the original album closes with Kahan in a place of tension between the past and the present, these new songs feature him delving back into the past until the extended version
Anna Falk | Tuesday, March 22, 2022
The evolution of a band and their music is one of the most fascinating things to see. Sometimes they evolve for the better, and other times for the worse. There are even times when a band’s evolution doesn’t do anything but make them more interesting. This area is where I see “From 2 to 3,”
Anna Falk | Friday, January 21, 2022
As the seasons change throughout the year, so do people. In art, this is an important aspect to consider. My life has been centered around music for as long as I can remember. Throughout this time, I’ve seen what and who I listen to change as I discover new artists and as the artists I
Charlie Kenney | Friday, October 2, 2020
For a record to explicitly tie itself to a place is ambitious. Music occupies a space somewhere outside of the physical. It is much more appropriate, much easier to attempt to tether it to an idea or memory. Places may be involved in those memories, but they rarely become that axis around which an album
Matthew Kellenberg | Thursday, April 25, 2019
On the topic of predicting a film’s critical or commercial success, screenwriter William Goldman famously declared: “Nobody knows anything.” Goldman’s Law seems to apply to the music world as well. Rivers Cuomo of Weezer once called “Pinkerton,” the band’s second album, “a hideous record … a hugely painful mistake,” though it matured into one of
Ryan Israel | Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad’s latest album, “Nectar,” is to his musical career what a finsta is to a rinsta. For readers without Instagram accounts, let me explain: the “finsta” is the latest social media trend that has captured the hearts of young people everywhere. Finsta, an abbreviated term for “fake Instagram,” stands in contrast to the
Matthew Kellenberg | Friday, January 18, 2019
There’s some irony to the fact that The Tallest Man on Earth went under the radar last year. Kristian Matsson, stage name The Tallest Man on Earth, released six singles over the course of 2018. In September 2018, the folk singer-songwriter compiled five into his EP “When The Bird Sees The Solid Ground.” The reception
Matthew Kellenberg | Monday, October 29, 2018
When Gregory Alan Isakov isn’t tending to his three-acre farm, the singer-songwriter spends his time touring across the globe and recording music in his converted studio-barn. “Evening Machines,” born from these studio-barn sessions, tackles Isakov’s curious lifestyle with impressive clarity and depth. Isakov has long thrived at illustrating setting. Here, the musician too strives for
Ethan Utley | Thursday, September 20, 2018
Iron & Wine is an indie folk pseudonym for singer-songwriter Samuel Beam. Over six studio albums and several more EPs, Iron & Wine has demonstrated poetic and harmonic perfection. It is the type of music you might find yourself listening to in times of great happiness and great sorrow. The blend of nostalgia and bliss