San Francisco-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Michael Zapruder initial gained interest as an associate of Patty Spiglanin’s music group the Naked Barbies, which self-released 3 albums (Dance with Vacuums [1994], Tarnished [1996], and Living Independently [1998]) before reconfiguring and renaming themselves the Vagabond Enthusiasts for the 2000 recording ONCE I Was …

A native of the tiny rural Oregon town of Coquille, singer-songwriter and classically trained cellist Laura Gibson is area of the Pacific Northwest folk-pop picture that centers around the Portland-based indie label Hush Information, formerly the house from the Decemberists. Previous Decemberists drummer Rachel Blumberg takes on on Gibson’s 1st …

Karl Blau is really a prolific vocalist/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, manufacturer, and engineer. He computes of the tiny city of Anacortes in north Washington state and it has released a lot more than three-dozen recordings under his personal name. He’s area of the Knw-Yr-Own label collective, but in addition has issued game …

Best known because the business lead vocalist, guitarist, and concept songwriter using the Spinanes, Rebecca Gates was among the leading statistics over the ’90s indie rock and roll scene before shifting for an eclectic profession within the arts. Gates initial began producing music when she was a girl; she trained …

Playing brittle and evocative alt-country with lyrics that pull powerful and sometimes troubling portraits of lifestyle across the margins from the contemporary American Western, Richmond Fontaine may be the brainchild of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Willy Vlautin, who was simply blessed in Reno, Nevada. When Vlautin is at his early …

John Wesley Harding might take his name from a Bob Dylan album and become a modern-day folksinger, but with the biting, cynical observations in his music and a clear love of life combined with being successful melodies, he implies that his true forefathers are Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe using …

Created in Helena, MT, Colin Meloy offers fronted three rings, Happy Cactus, Tarkio, as well as the Decemberists. His 1st foray into single work arrived in 2005 when he strike the road to get the six-song EP Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey. He toured once again the following yr with fellow …

Casey Neill is really a Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter known for blending politically oriented folk with Celtic, punk, nation, and other designs. Neill grew up over the East Coastline but transferred to Olympia, Washington to wait Evergreen State School, where he became thinking about environmentalism and protest music. Through the entire …

Seattle singer/songwriter Laura Veirs sings personal music of intimate intoxication, everyday vignettes, and occasional public commentary which are often large in introspection and intense personality scrutiny. Her vocals and melodies quickly change and veer, along her wide vocal range. She released her very own self-titled CD, documented live and offering …

The folk pleasure that’s Lavender Gemstone originally found life in Parrot Songs from the Bauharoque, a punk operetta inspired by the task of American painter/architect Paul Laffoley. Vocalist Becky Stark had written and developed the piece with a pal while surviving in Providence, RI, and starred as Lavender herself, a …