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Hello, and welcome back our much-delayed coverage of the Newport Folk Fest ’17! Thanks much for coming back, and we hope y’all appreciate our mid-way point on these festivities. We’ll spoil a little bit and say one of our favorite discoveries was today. So then, a quick starter in the form of Mt. Joy. Mt. Joy is Philly five-piece that is your fairly typical indie rock group. Their music came off very… chill, we guess? Not bad, a good way to start, but we didn’t feel any need to follow up further, especially when our second favorite act was today. (The anticipation builds!) Next stop:Read More →

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Welcome back. Halfly to you, our readers, and halfly (not a word, actually) to us. It’s been too long! Oh how we’ve missed you! How work has plummeted us to the depths of Moria. Forgive us the Lord of the Rings reference, it is wholly inappropriate to a three day music festival of grandeur and great indie heights. Perhaps we’ll get to that shortly. We do have to be honest: our favorite years were ’15 and ’16, absolutely amazing years. But the Newport Folk Festival really is the Jewel of the Summer Music Scene. (Not our words, paraphrased from someone else.) This year was notRead More →

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We just caught the Newport Folk Fest, the musical jewel of the summer… other than its older and meaner brother the Newport Jazz Fest. Why should you head over to the Newport Jazz Fest? Because Bela Fleck and the Most Amazing Living Bassist (ie Victor Wooten) are headlining Friday. Because Rhiannon Giddens, who played one of the best sets at the Folk Fest has a double-header with the always excellent Trombone Shorty. (Giddens fits in incredibly well with the power of her jazz voice, too.) Because you missed the Folk Fest, and you need NEED your fix of the Newport-hosted music scene. There are tooRead More →

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Incredible illustration by Allie Briggs: www.alliebriggs.com We have our second Kickstarter up, this time for The Keeper of Dreams Volume II. It’s a fairly reasonable price, and has our favorite story in it. (We’ll let you guess which one.) (Actually, it’s mentioned on the Kickstarter – so go check it out!)   Here’s the clickable link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1150999370/the-keeper-of-dreams-volume-ii We hope y’all enjoy! It’s going to be an amazing book, and that’s not just our saying it’ll be. Hope to see you on the Kickstarter, -Mgmt.Read More →