After the difficult decision to cancel the annual Winterfolk festival, we were delighted to see that we will see the fest return after all with a special 1-day only Spring edition on June 8th, 2024. While this fest normally features a weekend packed full of great folk songwriters across a multitude of venues, this time it all goes down at the historic Redwood Theatre (1300 … Continue reading Winterfolk XXII
With an almost animalistic nature, a lush wave of soulful blues guitars rushes out. Perhaps unsurprising given its namesake, the alluring tone is joined by jazz-inspired rhythms, soulful bass bopping along to the intentional shuffling of the drums and breezy staccato guitars carrying the beat steadily onto our auditory canal. While we got a small taste of the vocal stylings of Alien Feli at the … Continue reading Jazzmine? Alien Feli’s latest feels more like a musical Goldmine.
Barreling out of Somewhere’sville, U.S.A comes Big Sexy, a unique collaborative group of artists who together pack a punch. Their recent release River of Shame is an 8-track album created in partnership with Outside Records out of Kiev, Ukraine who have been working with artists who shared their interest in supporting Ukrainian musicians and using music to ease the challenges brought on by the weight … Continue reading Big Sexy embark on the River of Shame.
As of today Spotify has arbitrarily decided that it doesn’t like your podcast to include music within the “talk” portion of your podcast, and because I cannot be assed to separate my files to appease this almighty AI-based overlord, the podcast will simply no longer be streaming on Spotify. On today’s episode we continue the conversation from last week circling briefly back to update you … Continue reading Death Bus for Blondie Variety Hour: S2 E4 – Underneath the Sycamore
It’s like being waved onto a gameshow and an all-American dance-off at the same time. Bringing flare and fire straight out of the gate, “Paul and Babe” by Minneapolis based singer-songwriter Brian Charles Tischleder is one of those rare tracks that you know is bound to get you swingin’ and shakin’ from the moment the snare rolls on and the keys step up to say, … Continue reading We wanna dance with Brian Charles Tischleder’s “Paul and Babe”
As the needle hits the record we’re met by a single acoustic guitar playfully strumming along underneath a simple refrain as though we’re listening to the beginning stages of how this track came to be before any lyrics were drawn up to it. As a cool-tempered electric guitar noodles into our headphones, so does the drummer and his kit is ready to pop off. Literally, … Continue reading Indecent Proposal got us Feeling Good
Hope everyone had a good weekend – I know I’m a day late on this one but hopefully it gave you a chance to listen to The Clearing while I put this together. Today I’m gonna talk a bit about track 6: Little Fish. About the Track Little Fish was the third track featured on my 3-song EP “A Quiet Place To Scream” and I … Continue reading The Clearing Track By Track: Little Fish
While out and about this weekend promoting the upcoming release of The Clearing I was invited down into The Basement for an episode of “What’s In My Drawer’s?” showing you some of the most influential albums I listened to growing up and what still holds up for me today. Watch the extended cut exclusively on my YouTube channel now! Thanks for having me, The Basement! … Continue reading What’s In My Drawers?
When I first set out to track A Quiet Place To Scream, I did so in a way that I always intended to go back and re-track things and show as much of the process as possible. I had three goals in mind when I did this: see how far I could get without spending hardly any money, show newcomer songwriters/rock producers some of the … Continue reading The Making of The Clearing: Part 1
I have a brand new interview up with the fine folks at Bridge Magazine. Check it out below! Afterwards, if you missed it, I recently released a brand new track called “Blister” which you can only stream here on my website. You can check that out over here: And Wayback Wednesday has made a triumphant return today with our first cover song selection of 2022 … Continue reading Crooked Forest Interview: Bridge Magazine
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