Folk Blog Posts

     There is not a lot to add here about Bob Dylan that has not already been said. It is important to note however, that if you are under the age of 40, many of you might wonder what the fuss was really all about. After all, in a...

Esta composição da década de 70 é uma maravilha! Obra de Neil Young - o cara que é uma lenda do rock americano - “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the blue)” foi composta mais precisamente em 1978, quase no finalzinho da década. Falar que as décadas...

22 years and 6 albums since forming as a band, Calexico presents their 2012 album Algiers, recognizably classic Calexico but with a style that has been revitalized and reborn by the experience of recording in New Orleans. Conscious of the clichés th...

MIAMI – Nick Folk’s 33-yard field goal in overtime lifted the New York Jets past the Miami Dolphins on Sunday 23-20. The Dolphins blocked a kick from Folk just seconds before, but a timeout called by Miami head coach Joe Philbin just befo...

Le songwritter lillois Jullian Angel a sorti récemment son troisième album Kamikaze Planning Holidays et n'a cessé depuis d'envahir les scènes hexagonales. Sa folk intimiste est mise en valeur par une voix grave qui envoute l'auditeur sur un albu...

On connaît maintenant ce qui unit Kim à Lenny Kravitz : celui d'avoir placé "sitting on the top of the world" en tête de gondole d'une de leurs chansons. Cela se passe en plage 6, et plus exactement sur "White Balloon", premier morceau de la face...

Get Well Soon is (essentially) Konstantin Gropper, a 29 year-old German composer, multi-instrumentalist and man of very vivid imagination. The fact that his new album is called The Scarlet Beast O’Seven Heads (a title more suited to an Iron Maiden&...

     Jenny Boyd was the younger sister of Patti Boyd who was the first wife of George Harrison. She lived the life of a swinging London single. She began an on again/off again with drummer Mick Fleetwood beginning in 1965 when she...

This weekend my friend Andrew and I went to the Salton Sea, a salt water lake about 3 hours south of LA.  I’d been hearing a lot about it since I moved here and I’ve really wanted to take a photo trip there to see it with my own eyes.  ...

The Kenroy Home Richardson Table Lamp is beautiful and heavy base. This traditional table lamp comes in a bronze finish with a red and bell … Read more »...

(CHECK OUT PART TWO, HERE.) This weekend my friend Andrew and I went to the Salton Sea, a salt water lake about 3 hours south of LA.  I’d been hearing a lot about it since I moved here and I’ve really wanted to take a photo trip there to...

(CHECK OUT PART TWO, HERE.) This weekend my friend Andrew and I went to the Salton Sea, a salt water lake about 3 hours south of LA.  I’d been hearing a lot about it since I moved here and I’ve … Continue reading →...

This is a bit old, but new music from the Avett Brothers is always worth mentioning. The band — brothers Seth and Scott Avett, Bob Crawford and Joe Kwon — are releasing their seventh studio album, The Carpenter, in September. They …...

Mumford & Sons are following up the surprise success of their debut, Sigh No More, with a new album called Babel. “I Will Wait,” the album’s first single, doesn’t sound much different than their previous work — st...

I have been travelling in Canada with my family for a couple of months and was pleased to find out my photo was used for the cover of Topics Travel and Culture issue. The article, ‘Drumming Their Way to Respect‘, is about Chio-tian Fol...

Image SourceWhile trying to come up with something to post today, we received a notice that our favourite band, British folk band, Mumford & Sons, had just posted a new video on their YouTube channel. Hurriedly we clicked...

Sun, Cat Power’s first new piece of music since 2008’s Jukebox, could be seen as a rebirth for Chan Marshall, shedding much of the darkness that once defined her sound. As soon as we hear the first uncharacteristically jovial piano notes it’...

Last year, Ohio band Southeast Engine released Canary, an album based on Great Depression-era Appalachian Ohio. Today, they’re putting out its companion EP, Canaanville. The new EP is not composed of b-sides or outtakes, and just based on t...

     Over the years, Donovan has been considered a lightweight, but as opposed to "heaver" psychedelic bands his music would stand up much better over 40 years later. The music however, was truly a product of the "flower power" er...

Tecucenii care vor călca pragul Galeriilor de Artă în perioada următoare au ocazia de a vedea o nouă expoziţie, “Introspecţie cromatică”, alcătuită din lucrări ale pictorului Nicolae Cărbunaru (n. 1944 la Brăila). Inaugurarea...