From the category archives:

Folk / Folk Rock

Jeff Beam – “Now” / Six States In Seven Days

April 11, 2012

I’m doing my very best to get through ALL of my emails before switching day jobs. It’s a challenge, but I probably harp on it too much, so I’ll stop as of this moment. I got an email from Portland’s (the Maine one not the Oregon one, although how about that announcement that the “Simpsons” [...]

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Cold Specks – Stream “Winter Solstice” / Opening For Great Lake Swimmers

March 27, 2012

What’s that? Who’s opening for Great Lake Swimmers in western Canada? You know, the tour that we announced here, and has a big circle around the Edmonton date in my calendar? Ha, I can tell you that – it’s Cold Specks. Cold Specks, the solo project of Etobicoke’s Al Spx, actually got noticed in the [...]

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Album Review: The Wooden Sky – Every Child A Daughter Every Moon A Sun

February 29, 2012

Artist: The Wooden Sky Album: Every Child A Daughter Every Moon A Sun Overall Rating: 8.2 Release Date: February 28 2012 Label: Black Box Toronto’s The Wooden Sky actually formed back in 2003, but changed their name in 2007 from Friday Morning’s Regret to The Wooden Sky, which has stuck since. “Every Child A Daughter [...]

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Admiral Fallow – “Beetle In the Box” / Sophomore LP Drops May 21

February 27, 2012

I spent most of the weekend in Vancouver, but was of course checking twitter regularly – for any hockey trades of course, but also the usual suspects in the music world. One of the Saskatchewan bands I follow (and have talked about a number of times) – Slow Down Molasses – tweeted about this band [...]

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Wooden Sky – “Child Of the Valley” / LP Drops February 28 / + Tour Dates

February 20, 2012

One of the albums that’s been getting a lot of spins on my Iphone since I first received it is Wooden Sky’s new release, “Every Child A Daughter Every Moon A Sun” – which drops February 28th (Black Box). The Toronto band features an alt-country-folk with epic overtones – compelling, somber, inquisitive, with an overarching [...]

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Gardening Not Architecture – The Florida Sessions

February 13, 2012

The weekend’s CMA session was more intense than I figured, and it looks like I’m going to be extremely busy between now and when the program concludes in June – but I did get an awesome email on the second day from one of my favorite artists of the past few years, Sarah Saturday (aka [...]

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Alice Kos – “You Missed It All” CD Release Party This Saturday

February 8, 2012

I happened across the announcement for Alice Kos’ CD release party the other day, and after not only listening to her album, but buying it, I must say, I’m over-the-top impressed with her. She has an incredible voice, her talent as a songwriter will smack you upside the head, and the production quality of her [...]

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Emily Wells – Stream “Passenger” / Signs To Partisan Records

February 2, 2012

It’s really no surprise I’ve quickly become a fan of Emily Wells. Though currently of Los Angeles (previously Indianapolis and Amarillo), her music could easily come from the great prairies of Canada. If her sound was a pasta dish, you’d start with folk al dente, add in classical sauce, and top with a haunting and [...]