Tag Archives: Alternative Folk

Vocalist/songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche, girl of Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche (the Roches) and half-sister of Rufus and Martha Wainwright, was created and raised in NEW YORK. Wainwright Roche spent her formative years journeying with and amongst her huge musical family members. After senior high school, she went to …

British experimental folk-rock (or self-proclaimed “craft pop”) band Moulettes shaped in Glastonbury, Somerset in 2002, away of the collective of like-minded musicians who had known each other and played out together since university. Led from the charismatic Hannah Miller and originally offering bassist Ted Dwane, who continued to become listed …

Shaped in early 2007 across the talents of Daniel Baer, Wayne Create, Brady Miller, Ted Lattis, and Devon Press, Brooklyn-based, global-folk outfit La Strada has specialized inside a genre-bending mixture of chamber pop, European folk, Afro-pop, and indie rock and roll. The self-described retailers of “raucous, foot-stomping displays” built a …

Shaped in 2006 across the talents of New York-born guitarist Joe Conte and California indigenous/vocalist/songwriter Victoria Patrick, Los Angeles-based indie pop duo A River Valentine crafts delicate, left-field folk music in the vein of She & Him and Tegan and Sara with a wholesome dose of Velvet Underground sweetness and …

Portland’s Dark Prairie began in 2007 when Decemberists guitarist Chris Funk, having discovered the joys from the Dobro acoustic guitar, and Decemberists bassist Nate Query made a decision to start a mainly instrumental and acoustic string music group as a part task. They enlisted another Decemberists member, Jenny Conlee, on …

Self-termed “digital folk” duo Lulacruza includes Colombian Alejandra Ortiz (vocals, cuatro, percussion) and Argentinian Luis Marette (consumer electronics, charango, percussion). Both often blend their organic instrumentation with digital levels and beats — a fusion that leads to a tranquil, hypnotic sound. Although they foundation themselves out of Buenos Aires, they …

Pop-folk singer and songwriter Noah Gundersen was created Might 31, 1989 in Olympia, Washington into an exceptionally spiritual but also very music family members that frowned about secular music, a look at that he ultimately abandoned. Gundersen started acquiring piano lessons before he was a teenager, and after inheriting a …

Operating beneath the stage name Ain, Irish singer/songwriter Aindriú Conroy offers centered himself in London because the dissolution from the Opiates, his Dublin sound rock task, in 2005. The Kildare native’s following emergence like a single performer could scarcely possess provided a larger comparison. He stripped his music of most …

Created in 2005 across the talents of Truck Pierszalowski, Cambria Goodwin, Caleb Nichols, and Joshua Barnhart, California’s Interface O’Brien take up the same idiosyncratic alternative folk/indie rock and roll surroundings as Jason Molina, Can Oldham, and Pavement. The many bandmembers have time jobs that see them working extended hours in …

Hailing from Ottawa, Canada, Leif Vollebekk is definitely a multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter known for his somber, melancholy pop tracks that catch the styles of yearning, long-lost like, and experience. During his years as a child and teenagers, he found out the music of Bob Dylan, Neil Adolescent, and Lou Reed …