Glen Hansard accomplished a rare feat back in 2007, winning a "Best Original Song" Oscar, with Czech singer Markéta Irglová, for an indie-fo...
Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls feature prominently in English pop culture: J. M. W. Turner painted the liquid landscape more than once; She...
Noah Gundersen is passing through an inward, studious phase; he's reading philosophy and searching for meaning, and Carry the Ghost, the Sea...
Way back in 2014, Kalle Mattson released his remarkable and intensely personal record Someday, the Moon Will Be Gold, which earned widesprea...
Ben Kunder's Golden is one of those records that sounds like a culmination rather than a debut, which is what it is. The Toronto alt-folk mu...
Michael Feuerstack is on tour in Europe in support of his new record, The Forgettable Truth which Forward Music Group released on February 1...
"We started off in darkness / We ended off in light / We suffered for our art along the way," sings veteran singer-songwriter Michael Feuers...
Onward and Sideways is Joshua Radin's sixth long-player in under a decade. The whispery-voiced singer-songwriter has been productive since h...
You're going to kick yourself if this is the first you're hearing of Horse Feathers. The Portland, Oregon, folk outfit have been around for...
Shawn William Clarke's debut album, Like Birds Too Tired To Fly (2010), earned multiple "best of" nods. On his new album, the Toronto-based...
Google Bob Carpenter and you'll get business professionals, athletes, sportscasters and a Grammy-winning country artist with the same name,...
California-born, Texas-based musician Nicholas Altobelli's Mesocyclone is a record about a breakup and transition that sounds and feels like...
Newfoundland-based folk trio the Once (Geraldine Hollett, Andrew Dale and Phil Churchill) hit all the right notes with their Nettwerk debut....
Having signed to Nettwerk, Australian singer-songwriter Stu Larsen documents his life on the road on his debut full-length, Vagabond. The re...
What do two sweet-sounding acoustic folk singer-songwriters who met in Hamilton ten years ago have in common with Simon & Garfunkel c. 1960s...
Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit might have been forgiven if their third studio album, Stay Gold, was merely above average. Their previous rec...
Saskatoon's old-timey country-garage band the Seahags, not to be confused with the glam metal band from San Francisco of the same name, are...
Victoria's folk-rock duo Jon and Roy will put you at ease and help you to appreciate the simple things. By My Side, their fifth album, is un...
You can tell a lot about a musician by the company she keeps, and Canadian virtuoso fiddle player and singer Miranda Mulholland has played w...
If you hold Marta Pacek's new record up to your ear, you can almost hear the ocean. Which is to say that you can take the alt-folk songstres...
