folk

The Soft Collapse: Heart Of Hearts

“After Ryan Montgomery and Dave Teufel’s former band, Heroes in the Seaweed, split, Ryan continued writing and performing privately, frequently to audiences of one. When he decided to finally take his newer songs out of the bedroom and into the…

Hail! The Planes: Brother

Hail! The Planes is a post-folk band from Cardiff that got their start in late 2007 when four friends got together and made a folky racket in a small room above an estate agents. Their influences run the gamut from…

Lord Huron: Mighty

In the spring of 2010 Ben S. traveled easterly from Los Angeles to Northern Michigan. He spent a week at the site of his childhood retreats: the shores of Lake Huron. It was there he set to work developing a…

Tunng: Don’t Look Down or Back

Tunng are an experimental folk band, formed in 2003 in London, England. Today’s selection is taken from their March 2010 release …And Then We Saw Land. The band consists of Mike Lindsay (vocals, guitar), Sam Genders (vocals, guitar), Becky Jacobs…