Emilyn Brodsky’s charisma is difficult to resist. Here’s the snippet from her bio that won me over before I’d even listened to her music: “She has been called ‘charmingly aggressive’, ‘the love of my life’ and ‘a jerk’.” Brodsky’s lyrics…
Cricket Tell the Weather is one of the Northeast’s breakout folk bands and with good reason. The band won first place at last year’s FreshGrass festival and they’ve won several songwriting awards. That’s all great, but let’s talk about their…
Joe Fletcher was easily one of my favorite “discoveries” at Campfire this summer. I’d heard his name around but never took the time to check him out. His set was low key — it was early in the morning and…
Bummed out by the end of September? Here’s some summer lovin’ from New York-based songwriter Éyal Hai and the distinctive jazzy vocals of Margaret Glaspy. The video takes selfie culture to the extreme — a comment on the narcissim of…
Just a public service announcement — manic blues rock band North by North, whose album I discussed a few months ago — have a cute lil EP out. The album art reminds me of Johnny Quest. The songs themselves are…
Scorched Earth Policy really is just that — a rock’n’roll tour de force that’ll singe the little hairs on your arms and eyebrows. In this summer mixtape (which clocks in at over an hour), Brother Dege takes no prisoners and…
Still recovering from Shit Storm 2014, but here’s a moment of zen from LA-based synth-pop band City City. It’s certainly on the other end of the budget spectrum from yesterday’s video, but I think both are equally charming. I gotta…
With all the stuff that’s been happening around me lately, taking a mental trip back in time to two weeks ago, when I attended the Campfire Festival, has brought me back to my happy place. So how was the inaugural…