15th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival Confirms Harry Smith at 100 Programming, Celebrating Compiler of Landmark Anthology of American Folk Music, Including Live Set from New York Dolls’ Great David Johansen with Members of His Band the Harry Smiths

15th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival Confirms Harry Smith at 100 Programming, Celebrating Compiler of Landmark Anthology of American Folk Music, Including Live Set from New York Dolls’ Great David Johansen with Members of His Band the Harry Smiths

Brooklyn Folk Fest Performers to Recreate Vol. 3 of the Anthology The Brooklyn Folk Festival, which celebrates its 15th edition this year, has confirmed events celebrating the centennial of Harry Smith, artist, filmmaker, and compiler of The Anthology of American Folk...
15th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival Confirms Harry Smith at 100 Programming, Celebrating Compiler of Landmark Anthology of American Folk Music, Including Live Set from New York Dolls’ Great David Johansen with Members of His Band the Harry Smiths

Brooklyn Folk Festival Shares Lineup for 15th Edition Nov. 10-12 with Alynda Segarra, Nora Brown, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Alice Gerrard, The Fugs, Jake Blount, Dom Flemons, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton, and Many More, Over 30 Artists on Two Stages

Celebration of 75 Years of Folkways Records Confirmed, with Artists Past and Present “Diverse, spontaneous, countercultural, and trenchant… one of the most vital and spiritually sound folk-music events in the country” –Amanda Petrusich, The New...
“Sensational” (American Songwriter), “Electrifying,” (Guitar World), “Firecracker” (Offbeat) Garage-Blues Artist/Rock & Roller Ghalia Volt Plots Album Produced by David Catching (Queens of the Stone Age)

“Sensational” (American Songwriter), “Electrifying,” (Guitar World), “Firecracker” (Offbeat) Garage-Blues Artist/Rock & Roller Ghalia Volt Plots Album Produced by David Catching (Queens of the Stone Age)

Volt Traveled to Joshua Tree to Record Shout Sister Shout!, Out Oct. 6 via Ruf Records with First Single and Video Out Sept 8 New Orleans-via-Belgium garage-blues artist/rock and roller Ghalia Volt made a pilgrimage to Joshua Tree, CA to make new album Shout Sister...
Grammy-Nominated Memphis Musician Paul Taylor Shares Ode to Music That “Probably Saved My Life” Under Moniker New Memphis Colorways from Upcoming Indie-Pop/Alt R&B EP Let the Mystery Be

Grammy-Nominated Memphis Musician Paul Taylor Shares Ode to Music That “Probably Saved My Life” Under Moniker New Memphis Colorways from Upcoming Indie-Pop/Alt R&B EP Let the Mystery Be

“Paul’s out of his damn mind. He conjures more original musical ideas in twelve bars that most musicians do with entire albums”–Cory Branan “One of the finest musicians I know and perhaps the most original songwriter in the world”–Richard Orange (Zuider...
Ahead of NPR Tiny Desk Concert Taping, Brooklyn’s Almost-18-Year-Old Banjoist/Vocalist Nora Brown and Award-Winning Fiddle Player Stephanie Coleman Team Up for Lady of the Lake, Out July 28 on Jalopy Records

Ahead of NPR Tiny Desk Concert Taping, Brooklyn’s Almost-18-Year-Old Banjoist/Vocalist Nora Brown and Award-Winning Fiddle Player Stephanie Coleman Team Up for Lady of the Lake, Out July 28 on Jalopy Records

EP Produced by Legendary Recording Engineer Peter K. Siegel, Who Produced Doc Watson, Joseph Spence, Roy Buchanan, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Nora Brown—the Brooklyn, NY soon-to-be-eighteen-year-old banjoist/vocalist who has appeared at Newport Folk Festival,...
How Jonah Tolchin’s Jewish Jewish & Buddist Faith; Peter Green’s Passing; His Divorce and Remarriage Shaped His New Blues-Adjacent LP Dockside

“Spellbinding” (No Depression) Songwriter/Guitarist Jonah Tolchin Announces Album Dockside, Co-Produced With Luther Dickinson, Out Oct 20 via His Newly-Formed Label Clover Music Group

Blues-Inspired Album Recorded In Louisiana Brings The 25+ Million-Time Streamed Artist Full Circle “Leads Duane Allman would have respected.”–NPR Music Jonah Tolchin is one of my favorite artists working on the highways today. He is one of the very rare, totally...
NPR Music All Songs Considered Spotlights Annie Bartholomew’s “Awesome” Debut Album as No Depression Does Deep Dive with the Alaskan Songwriter, Calling Her “Gifted Storyteller”

NPR Music All Songs Considered Spotlights Annie Bartholomew’s “Awesome” Debut Album as No Depression Does Deep Dive with the Alaskan Songwriter, Calling Her “Gifted Storyteller”

Telling True and Imagined Stories of Gold Rush-Era Sex Workers in Alaska and the Yukon, Album Sisters of White Chapel Out Tomorrow NPR Music All Songs Considered played a track from Annie Bartholomew’s debut album Sisters of White Chapel, which portrays gold rush-era...