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The Wooden Birds are a reincarnation of a number of different acts – Western Keys, American Analog Set, and Matt Pond PA - coming together to create an organic, unique and folk sound.  This quartet - Andrew Kenny, Leslie Sisson, Sean Haskins and Matt Pond – comes to us from Austin, TX.  Definitely not a stranger when it comes [...]

Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD There’s something in my genes that loves percussion at a deep and primal level. I can’t explain it much further than this: I remember my dad drumming along on the steering wheel to anything he was listening to. He never sang or hummed along [...]

Fink, the moniker of Brisol-raised, Brighton-based Fin Greenall, is Ninja Tunes‘ resident singer-songwriter or “guy-with-a-guitar-who-sings-too.” It might seem to be a bit of a dubious position, given the label’s tendency to output  more eclectic acts ranging from Amon Tobin to Roots Manuva, but his chilled-out, bluesy vibe has fit well into the more relaxed of [...]

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]

Here’s an eerily beautiful folk song by Los Angeles-based up-and-comers Milo Greene. Connect with Milo Greene: Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter | Website | Last.fm

Back in 2007 there were a multitude of artists being discovered and quickly snapped up by record labels via YouTube.  These artists would record their own jams or covers and then post them to the site, many of which were fucking horrendous but one of the ones who made it out that actually had talent [...]

“A fashion has come back. Fixed in new version – and here to stay. Imagine Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith and Bob Dylan. Remove 51% old man, two strings and add a new millennium.” Can you imagine it? Me neither. Never let it be said that I don’t give PR emails the benefit of the doubt, [...]

Eugh. Just look at those publicity shots. Dylan Champagne has been crafted to look like the most smug man on the planet. His fighting stance on the left is just inviting you to hit him. With photos like those, an album called “Love Songs of the Apocalypse Volume 1″ and a bandcamp blurb that describes [...]

Buy the album from Amazon – CD Sitting on the tube with a friend the other day, I spotted a poster for Benjamin Francis Leftwich‘s album, pitching him as “Brit-folk’s pretty new voice.” My friend turned to me and said: “Mumford And Sons are already Brit-folk’s new voice”. True, indie-folk, whether Brit or otherwise, is [...]

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Justin Vernon’s new album as Bon Iver doesn’t officially come out until tomorrow, and reviews have been pouring in from all over. “Bon Iver, Bon Iver” leaked quite a while ago, so most people have had time to spend with a new, more expansive sound, but on the b-side for gorgeous first single “Calgary” Vernon [...]

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Thank You Volcano is the product of the friendship of American Sam Hersey and Canadian Ryan Lovelock, who met in the Netherlands in 2006 and have been writing tunes together ever since. The guys got a bit more serious about their music last year and “Some Mule And A Rhino”, five tracks of tender, acoustic [...]

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I’m not going to review this new Bon Iver album, mainly because I’m pretty shite at reviewing albums unless it’s negative because those are really easy to do, but also because this isn’t even out yet and that, to me, isn’t enough time to full take in an album and review it fairly. Some people [...]