Tag Archives: Anti-Folk

The offbeat Trachtenburg Family members Slideshow Players aren’t a lot a band because they are a skill project. Deriving their music topics from classic slides of arbitrary family holidays, the trio (keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Jason Trachtenburg, slip projector/costume developer Tina Piña Trachtenburg, and preteen drummer Rachel Piña Trachtenburg) live a nomadic life-style, …

Boasting an extended job in entertainment filled up with important contributions to NY theater, mostly regarding composing or executing music, Peter Dizozza documented his first single album in 2001. Entitled Pro-Choice on Mental Wellness, it had been a seven-track music routine with dialogue from a mini-play sprinkled throughout.

Ed Hamell, who performs beneath the name Hamell on Trial, were able to build a stable subsequent for his anti-folk, punk rock-influenced acoustic music. Alternating between brash and funny, his audio has more in keeping with rock compared to the soft folksingers of yore. Hamell on Trial got his begin …

NY City-based anti-folk supergroup the Bundles shaped in 2001 across the abilities of quirky punk princess Kimya Dawson (Moldy Peaches) and underground comic musician/anti-folk hero Jeffrey Lewis. Dawson and Lewis, alongside longtime collaborators Jack port Lewis (bass) and Anders Griffen (drums), started piecing together tracks in 2001, obtaining together sporadically …

Though singer/songwriter Ben Godwin spent the first section of his career performing in hard rock bands in Glasgow, Scotland, he eventually determined how the acoustic anti-folk format was how he wished to display himself and his craft. In 2002 he released the EP Four Tracks, accompanied by =shinyshiny= in 2004 …

Among the main singer/songwriters from the anti-folk motion, Brenda Kahn shared all of the DIY ethics and punk attitude typical of it is leading figures, in addition to its dissatisfaction using the a lot more conservative folk establishment. That which was even more, Kahn sometimes produced her punk root base …

Created and raised within the forests of Pa, Atlantis Dark didn’t opt to step in to the music market until she 1st heard PJ Harvey. Fascinated with the English chanteuse’s gothic indie rock and roll and emotionally fresh approach, Black produced an end in New Orleans before investing in a …

Michelle Shocked was created Michelle Johnston in Dallas, TX, in 1962, where she spent her early child years traveling around military bases. In 1977, she went from her Mormon fundamentalist mom to reside with her dad, who launched her to nation bluesmen Big Expenses Broonzy and Leadbelly, in addition to …

Michal was created Michal Towber on the kibbutz in Israel. Her family members returned with their native NY when she was a season old. She started taking traditional piano lessons as a kid, but by her senior high school years got become thinking about popular music. Understanding how to play …

A veteran of New York’s anti-folk picture, songwriter Regina Spektor makes quirky, highly eclectic, but always personal music. Created and elevated in Moscow until age group nine, Spektor paid attention to her father’s bootleg tapes of Traditional western pop and rock and roll as a kid and also discovered to …