Staff Picks Archive
I always feel a weird sense of misplaced pride when I see my favorite artists doing big things like playing on the big late night show stages. I feel like “the weird uncle” to quote a friend who watches their careers taking off …
I’m a big fan of watching how geniuses do what they’re great at, I’m an even bigger fan when that genius is James Taylor. Recently his website, which is awesome by the way the man posts videos with him offering online guitar lessons …
One of my favorite parts about going to see indie folk shows is seeing the opener. They are always hungry and super talented. In the case of the recent Peter Bradley Adams show I told you guys about, the opener was a Nashville …
Most of us here take the beauty and supreme convenience that Netflix gives us for granted. I can assume that 2 of every 5 people have submerged themselves into a Netflix series or movie without even having the music that comes with the content …
Oh my God this song is ridiculous. “Sound & Color” is a track off of the Shakes most recent album, here they are performing it live in London. I don’t know if you can actually make better music than this? Someone get back …
Just this past weekend my best friend and I drove into the city Saturday night and together saw RAC perform at the Warsaw in Brooklyn. My first impression of the concert was nothing but absolutely positive. We were one of the several there, …
Watching a star on the rise folks, that is what we’re doing. Rateliff and his band are officially getting bigger every single day and it is really exciting to see. This group is putting out some really high quality music and it is …
Tiny Desk Concerts are arguably NPR’s best program. Some of today’s most prolific singer/songwriters have stripped down their sound and stepped into the office to stand amongst the copiers and water coolers and play an intimate, if not, campfire-esque casual set. Though if you …
If you’ve read this blog before you’d know I am an outspoken Eddie Berman fan. Well recently he released a video with a sneak peak of his next album in it, something I have been waiting for since I first heard he was making …
Here’s a little folk song written by my favorite songwriter of all time, Traditional. No one has any idea who wrote this song, how its evolution into its current form “Moonshiner” happened, or even what the original version of the song sounded like. …
