Sam Amidon: An Interview!
A mid-tour interview with Sam Amidon.
Tag Archives: folk
Remember That Record – Mermaid Avenue
Take a stroll down Mermaid Avenue and transport yourself into the folky days of the past.
Shakey Graves Announces Fall Tour
Jack Wall (Photo by Jeremy Stanley) Singer/song writer Alejandro Rose-Garcia, otherwise known by his stage name Shakey Graves, will be heading all over North America this Fall. Us Bostonians will be treated to Shakey Graves’s stripped down folk tunes on October 24th at the Sinclair. Recently, Shakey Graves played the Newport Folk Festival, and was […]
Interview: Marissa Nadler
Dark folk singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler talked with us over the phone before her show at The Sinclair this Thursday.
Stream Saintseneca’s New Album
Stream Saintseneca’s “Dark Arc” in full.
Wild Child’s First Boston Gig (Great Scott 12/15)
Catching Wild Child at Great Scott for their first ever Boston appearance felt like being in on a secret.
The Ups and Ehs of Newport Folk Festival 2013
Newport is a hell of a place, and along with its insurmountable summer atmosphere comes a bounty of tradition and history. That sense of tradition has carried over into the resort town’s premiere summer event: the Newport Folk Festival. While recent years have reflected a stretch towards other genres, 2013 went back to the Festival’s roots and remained more tethered to the standard perception of folk.
Lissie (Brighton Music Hall 6/5)
By Matthew Shelter Photos by Matthew Shelter More than two years after her last appearance in our fair town, Lissie Maurus, who goes by the single-word stage name Lissie, was back in the city playing to a sold-out Brighton Music Hall crowd on a recent Wednesday night. Lissie is working on a new album, due […]
Okkervil River Announce New Album “The Silver Gymnasium”
The indie-folk stalwarts of Austin’s Okkervil River have announced their seventh album, The Silver Gymnasium. The record has a release date of September 3rd, only days before the band will play at the second incarnation of Boston Calling. – Neil