folk

Awning: Home

Awning is the Brooklyn folktronica duo of Jon Sheldrick and Luke Smith, who initially met while studying music at NYU. They both are apparently classically trained musicians who have experimented with a variety of projects in the past [e.g. opera,…

Irena Zilic: Days of Innocence

Good morning to all you caffeine-huffing Insomniacs and Hype Machinists. We’d like to introduce you to Irena Zilic of Zagreb, Croatia, an indie folk singer-songwriter who claims her influences are from artists along the lines of Ben Howard, Norah Jones…

Rogue Valley: Rose Festival

Todays feature comes from the Minneapolis based band Rogue Valley, notably the lead-off track from the second album “The Bookseller’s House”, part of their four album seasonally themed catalog. All of Rogue Valley’s four themed albums follow the pay-what-you-want model…

Laurie Levine: Oh Brother

Talented South African folk artist Laurie Levine heads to the UK at the end of the November, playing songs from her latest release ‘Six Winters’ that launched in that region on November 5th. She first emerged on the scene in…