Let’s veer away from pop to the decidedly esoteric. Field Sleeper, an acoustic singer/songwriter based out of Ohio Wesleyan University, is intent on creating a sleepy, challenging ambiance. Not unlike Rosary Beard, Field Sleeper takes familiar elements of folk music…
It’s no secret that bands like The Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons have swung the mainstream spotlight towards our neo-Americana scene. Like so many music trends before this moment, there will have to be one artist who will be…
There’s beauty in simplicity. That’s certainly the guiding principle in Dubl Handi’s debut release, Up Like the Clouds. Dubl Handi (named after a brand of washboards) is the latest project of Hilary Hawke, who seems to be a well-known personage…
There’s really only thing you can say after spinning Nick and the Ovorols’ debut album, Telegraph Taboo. And that thing is “damn.” Nick Peraino’s red-hot blues guitar (yes, I wrote that, and no, I only feel a little badly about…
We reviewed Michael Cormier’s charming EP a little while ago. Now, the young multi-instrumentalist has released his first full-length album, Pots are. the Potter is. On his Bandcamp page, Cormier proudly declares that the album is “the inevitable product of…