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Because I Am Always Talking

Careful (music group)

Downcast lyrics in butterfly-like sonic settings

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Ripely Pine

Lady Lamb The Beekeeper

Solid folk-psych debut from Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter

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Alone Aboard The Ark

The Leisure Society

Witty lyrics set to lavish, folky chamber-pop tunes

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Under the Radar: 10 Albums You Might Have Missed In 2012

By Stewart Mason

If you know more than two of these, you're way… >>

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And the Tears Washed Me, Wave After Cowardly Wave

Dreamend

A disorienting alt-folk song cycle concludes.

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Aetherea

Sondra Sun-Odeon

Silver Summit frontwoman's haunting solo debut.

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Among the Leaves

Sun Kil Moon

Mark Kozelek goes wryly autobiographical.

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Feist kicks Polaris butt, winning over Grimes and other favorites

By Rishbha Bhagi

Canadian songstress wins the coveted music prize.

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Get your psych-folk and goth fix with Faun Fables fall tour

By Stewart Mason

Faun Fables frolic with Rasputina.

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It All Starts With One

Ane Brun

Norwegian singer-songwriter dreams of Laurel Canyon.

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Jesca Hoop confuses, unsettles in new video

By Stewart Mason

Like a really creepy clip from a PBS kids show.

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Mumford and Sons announce new catchy album

By Stewart Mason

Something to replace "Little Lion Man" for a while.

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The Tarnished Gold

Beachwood Sparks

Laurel Canyon revivalists return.

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Video of the Day: The Woodwards

By Stewart Mason

Haunting imagery from Amsterdam duo

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Beirut release new video for "The Rip Tide"

By Chris Payne

A few words from bandleader Zach Condon

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Sun Kil Moon premiere new video

By Stewart Mason

Beautiful monochromes

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Here

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Can you feel the love?

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Americana

Neil Young

It's worse than you think.

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Jonathan Wilson premieres new video

By Stewart Mason

Simple and beautiful

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Neutral Milk Hotel meets hip-hop

By Stewart Mason

British producer mashes In the Aeroplane.

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M. Ward gets primitive on Letterman

By Stewart Mason

Bring your son to work night

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The Mynabirds announce summer tour

By Michael Wojtas

Saddle Creek band plays the US this summer.

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Help Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold score LOLcats film

By Chris Payne

A great day for the internet

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Video of the Day: Cold Specks

By Stewart Mason

Canadian doom-soul singer previews debut LP

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Sharon Van Etten extends tour

By Stewart Mason

New European and North American dates added

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TV Performance of the Day: Bon Iver On Ellen

By Stewart Mason

Justin Vernon has located his razor

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Critical 5: Songs from Indie Films

By Chris Payne

Five songs we can't disassociate from films.

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Best of the New Psychedelia

By Michael Wojtas

Just as Paisley Underground and shoegaze greats breathed new life… >>

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A Wasteland Companion

M. Ward

Singer-songwriter returns to solo work.

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Urstan

Mairi Morrison and Alasdair Roberts

Traditional Gaelic music brought alive.

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Woodsist Festival 2012 lineup announced

By Stewart Mason

Psych-folk gathering in Big Sur

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Newport Folk Festival announces 2012 lineup

By Stewart Mason

Let's stop pretending it's a folk festival.

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Sun Kil Moon announce new album

By Stewart Mason

Mark Kolezek gets...playful?

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Animal Joy

Shearwater

A birdman with a flair for the dramatic.

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Bonnie Prince Billy releasing new single two ways

By Stewart Mason

Will Oldham doubles the b-sides.

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The Decemberists weigh in on charity funding controversy

By Stewart Mason

Portland rockers make a stand.

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M. Ward debuts first video from upcoming album

By Stewart Mason

Singer/songwriter gets animated.

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Kickstarter-funded Bill Callahan tour doc preps for release

By Stewart Mason

Singer-songwriter's 2011 tour gets chronicled.

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I Want What You Want

Jennifer O’Connor

Jangly folk-pop sounds almost too effortless.

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Wolfroy Goes To Town

Bonnie Prince Billy

Will Oldham's most compelling record in years.

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Golder

Haley Bonar

Minneapolis singer-songwriter's richest collection so far.

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Gracious Tide, Take Me Home

Lanterns on the Lake

Wish Arcade Fire were a little more dramatic?

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Starry Mind

P.G. Six

Alt-folk singer-songwriter takes an electric turn.

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Metals

Feist

Frustratingly aimless follow-up to her unexpected hit.

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A Creature I Don't Know

Laura Marling

A gifted singer-songwriter comes into her own.

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American Goldwing

Blitzen Trapper

There’s blood on these tracks.

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The Harrow and the Harvest

Gillian Welch

Has it really been eight years?

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The Rip Tide

Beirut

One-time wunderkind finds his own sound.

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Our Blood

Richard Buckner

Hushed singer-songwriter's first work in five years.

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Sun and Shade

Woods

Fireside folk weirdos get melodic.

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Inclusions

Ben Sollee

Cellist explores earnest singer-songwriter territory.

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The Errant Charm

Vetiver

Mellow and pretty, but not much more.

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Dig Down Deep

Vandaveer

Washington D.C. alt-folk duo hit their stride.

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Imperfiction

Ed Askew

Long-lost acid-folk home recordings resurface.

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Helplessness Blues

Fleet Foxes

Beardy woodland sprites avoid sophomore slump.

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Little Me Will Start A Storm

Loch Lomond

Promising but flawed transitional album.

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Wit's End

Cass McCombs

Deadly serious but beautifully assured.

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Guest List: Bill Callahan’s Influences

By Stewart Mason

On his 14th studio album Apocalypse, Bill Callahan (The Artist… >>

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Apocalypse

Bill Callahan

The singer-songwriter at work.

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Kiss Each Other Clean

Iron and Wine

Alt-folk’s crown prince learns to dance.

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The Wonder Show of the World

Bonnie Prince Billy

Poetic, powerful and poignant.

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21st-Century Concept Albums

By Laura Leebove

Even with MP3s serving as many listeners' first-choice music format,… >>

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Made the Harbor

Mountain Man

Nearly a cappella harmonies for post-modern folkies.

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Destroyer of the Void

Blitzen Trapper

Portland sextet make the great leap forward.

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Music Profile

Will Oldham

By Jim Allen

Unpredictable, wildly prolific alt-folkie

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At Echo Lake

Woods

A giant leap forward.

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A Critical List of 21st-Century Concept Albums

By Laura Leebove

Even with MP3s serving as many listeners' first-choice music format,… >>

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Out Into the Snow

Simon Joyner

Joyner unfolds one striking movie-for-the-ears after another

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Bill Callahan

By Stewart Mason

An introspective singer-songwriter in the classic tradition.

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Cat Power

By T. Cole Rachel

Fascinatingly confounding southern singer/songwriter.

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Declaration of Dependence

Kings of Convenience

Tasteful, if overly restrained, acoustic songs to quietly sing along… >>

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Red House Painters

By Stewart Mason

Delicate folk-rock with a gently narcotic shimmer.

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Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)

John Fahey

Solo acoustic Fahey writ large.

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Catacombs

Cass McCombs

Shaking off some of the aggressive quirkiness.

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Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear

Ambient meets acoustic in a bewitching sonic space

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Neutral Milk Hotel

By Stewart Mason

Experimental, oblique, and sometimes unsettling.

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The Decemberists

By Stewart Mason

The Decemberists made the Brit-folk side of progressive rock improbably… >>

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Sun Kil Moon

By Stewart Mason

Mark Kozelek's ever-evolving second act.

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