A rewarding, enriching and outstanding collaboration between Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Bryce Dessner, and Eighth Blackbird makes the old sound new, the new sound old and shines a light on a long lost minimalist composer.
Enlisting the contribution of previous collaborators, Pieta Brown expands her sound but forsakes essential folk groundwork on Freeway.
After forming and fronting his own Americana band eight years ago, Humming House's Justin Wade Tam breaks away — if only for a moment — to see the light as a solo artist with a new music video and an upcoming EP.
Kentucky folk-poppers Bendigo Fletcher return with the psychedelic reflections of their new EP, Memory Fever.
Austin-based folk group Ley Line interpret intercontinental flows of sound and spirituality for messages of environmental advocacy on their new single "Oxum".
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Jamie Drake's debut Everything Is Fine is informed by deeply personal but universal themes. Hear her latest single "Allison".
Throughout the ebb and flow of their new orchestral album, In Constellation, Canadian indie folk trio West My Friend establish their brilliance as progressive songwriters and arrangers.
Devendra Banhart's latest album, Ma, is a tender, beautiful meditation on the bonds that ties us together.
Shawn Colvin prepares an acoustic edition of her 1989 debut album, and discusses her transformation from impossibly eclectic singer to focused and formidable singer-songwriter.
Chelsea Wolfe is a gothic Gaia figure on intoxicating new folk rock album Birth of Violence.
Ahead of her AmericanaFest appearances, Dutch artist Judy Blank looks back on her ruminative song, "1995".
On his second release of 2019, To Memphis, Foy Vance embraces the Americana and folk rooted in his songwriting.
Folk artists Jesse Terry and Alex Wong set the spotlight on the imminent and irreversible effect that climate change will have upon the people of Kivalina, Alaska in just "Ten More Years".
Boston folk artist Lisa Bastoni wrote her empowering new single, "Beautiful Girl", for her daughter as a reminder that kindness can be a strength.
On No Man's Land, Frank Turner celebrates everyone from his mother, a spy, a serial killer, a CPR dummy, to more saintly beings on his tribute to women using only female accompanists.
Long winters and the precarious social and political state of the world have helped Minneapolis troubadour Jack Klatt focus his energies on the one thing that always matters.
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