Tag Archives: Joanna Newsom

A classically trained viola participant and multi-instrumentalist, Anni Rossi launched a songwriting profession in her early twenties, pulling evaluations to Joanna Newsom and various other equally anachronistic music artists. Using the viola to steer her method through folk-classical-pop tracks like “Wheelpusher,” not forgetting her exclusive Internet-based undertake Radiohead’s “Creep,” Rossi …

A virtuoso within the kalimba — an African device also called the thumb piano — Toronto-based singer/songwriter Laura Barrett also takes on with indie pop collective the Hidden Cams. Barrett’s personal music is very simple, often comprising simply the kalimba and her tone of voice, and frequently quirkier: she started …

Designer, musician and maker Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez was created in Havana, Cuba in 1983. The Baltimore, MD centered artist has already established his visual function featured in various magazines, both online and on the net, aswell as displays in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Like a musician, Gonzalez Alvarez is a person …

Samantha Crain grew up in rural Shawnee, Oklahoma, a city whose remote area influenced her quirky, earthy interpretation of folk music. Although motivated by the noises of her father’s music collection, including Bob Dylan as well as the Pleased Dead, a teenager Crain took sustained solace in the music of …

The aptly named pan-European outfit Lonely Drifter Karen has called places as far aside as Barcelona and Brussels house, nonetheless it has always revolved around Viennese-born singer/songwriter Tanja Frinta. Frinta started Depressed Drifter Karen in Sweden being a single task in 2005, launching the one Sinsweetime, but Majorcan keyboardist/arranger Marc …

An nearly unclassifiable mixture of extra, bluesy vocals and powerful drumming — with some pop and jazz components mixed set for great measure — Sweden’s Wildbirds & Peacedrums feature vocalist Mariam Wallentin and drummer Andreas Werliin. The set fulfilled in 2004 at Gothenburg’s Academy of Music and Episode but, frustrated …

Deriving their have stylish post-punk company, the Delighted initially arrived together beneath the Make sure you moniker in early 2000. Guitarist/vocalist Noah Georgeson researched with composer Terry Riley at Mills University and gained a master’s level in music. He wished to place his composing for orchestras and computer systems to …

Casey Dienel is a singer, songwriter, and pianist from Massachusetts who achieved common exposure saving and touring beneath the name White colored Hinterland. Ahead of launching that task, Dienel recorded a couple of jazz-influenced indie pop tunes known as Wind-Up Canary for the Hush Information label in 2006. Reinventing herself …

Combining folk, digital, lo-fi, and globe-trotting music elements right into a exclusive and frequently poignant appear, CocoRosie includes the Casady sisters, vocalist/guitarist/harpist Sierra and vocalist/percussionist Bianca. Both sisters got an early like of music that they pursued because they was raised, albeit in various methods: Sierra started operatic vocal schooling …

Although Joanna Newsom’s Appalachian-meets-avant-garde undertake folk music is her most famous work, her range is a lot more inclusive than her solo career suggests: the classically trained harpist adds a decidedly different, textural sound to Anxious Cop, the noise rock trio that also features Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier and Hella’s Zach …