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The Duke of Norfolk – Birds… Fly South!Mint 400 Records -out Feb 4 3.5 / 5 Birds… Fly South! is one of those little down-to-earth folk albums we like stumbling into every now and then. It’s a brief, earnest 34 minutes pared down from The Duke’s seven EPs over the past three years, all songs redone in a more cohesive style. The nom d’musique of UK resident Adam Howard, The Duke of Norfolk comes off like Josh Ritter’s second cousin and is stylistically married to The Avett Brothers: that said, anticipate acoustic guitar and banjo a-plenty, with folk vocals that have a slight Conor OberstRead More →

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We’ve been grooving hard to the soulful power-vocals of Lake Street Dive’s Rachael Price (third from left) for the past two weeks. With their new album, Bad Self Portraits due out in a couple weeks, we realized how much we wanted to get on the ground floor with this crew – even though it’s probably pretty hairy business to do so (see barbershop pic – look, a funny!). Their album seems well-positioned to propel the self-described dive-bar quartet onto the larger music radar, with recognition from Rolling Stone and The New York Daily News. The non-barbershop quartet, with members hailing from Nashville to Iowa, isRead More →

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Hello All,We’ve got a super pre-emptive post here. Remember that thing that we plug each year, the one that always seems to sell out way ahead of time? Well…CLICK HERE IF YOU CAN’T REMEMBER Yeah, so we’re judging that since the Newport Folk Festival sold out WAY TOO EARLY last year (before they even announced the whole lineup), it’s safe to assume the same here. Just off the top of our heads, some highlights of festivals past: – 2013: Deer Tick frontman John McCauley puts up an acoustic show for us beer-dazed acoustic-fazed bedragglers. He broke a string and – as this must always beRead More →

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…to spread the word about our new book, The Keeper of Dreams. We got off to a good start, rounding up half of our Kickstarter funds, but now we need to sprint the last way there. Just a week left, and we don’t have much time.All we’re asking is another $300, so if you want to kick in $5, that would be fantastic. If you want to let your bookish friends know about this kickstarter, even better. Why? Because we’re so nice, and you love us oodles. Or maybe you liked our two stories in the previous post – there’s more where that came from!SoRead More →