The return of Mumfordmania is imminent, as the British quartet have been road-testing an album’s worth of new material ever since the release of their 2009 breakout debut, Sigh No More, and selling out shows ever since (like their appearance at The Riverside last Halloween). It is rumored...

Performing in Milwaukee in just a few short weeks is a creatively vibrant pop/folk band that performs in a varity of styles. They are Motopony, a band who manages to pull in all sorts of eclectic instrumentation and stylistic influences and becomes a wonderfully diverse, yet cohesive,...

Love Love Love is the first single off ‘Our New Life Above The Ground,’ by the acoustic folk-pop band Avalanche City. The album was released in April of this year, but I am only hearing for the first time now. The song is interesting to me, as it is an immediate pleasure song, rather...

A new single from M83 was released yesterday, which is great to hear considering it has been three years since the last M83 album, Saturdays = Youth. The single is called Midnight City, and it is from their hotly anticipated album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, due out October 18, 2011....

Do you ever reach those moments where you feel music has lost its true roots and soul? I have those moments sometimes, luckily I have the perfect remedy nestled into my playlist: Pokey Lafarge & The South City Three. LeFarge’s creative mix of early jazz, string ragtime, country...

Teletextile is caught in a dreamscape of sound and spirit. New York’s own indie pop four-piece has picked up praise from a number of various sources, including Time Out New York and Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls, and are about to take off four a European Tour. Breathy, airy,...

To call them multi-instrumentalists might be a little overdone. Somehow, from this strange compost heap of little sounds and quiet thoughts, Freelance Whales started to rise up like steam from the ground. Together they make sounds that are acoustic and fragile, sentimental but memorable. The...

I’m jealous of Rhode Island… the Newport Folk Fest takes place next weekend, and so many great acts will be playing, like the monster and a gentleman act, River City Extension. River City Extension was born restless, curious, and conscious by singer-songwriter Joe Michelini in...

The Midwest weather is slightly warmer than the surface of the sun, so I’ve been trying to stay cool with the sounds of anything ‘winter.’ The Winter Sounds has been in my playlist for a while, in fact they have two full-length albums to its credit, but in the past year...