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With just two EPs and a couple standalone singles, Helen Ballentine, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter who records as Skullcrusher, has honed in on a sound that’s both familiar and bracingly distinctive. The market for vulnerable, downtempo acoustic music is a crowded one, but with her focus on the ambient side
Nebraska woman Darcia Ann will have her lifelong dream come true this month with the release of her country music album.
Darcia Ann, who grew up in the Nebraska Sandhills, has lived all over the state and resides in and has family in the Northeast Nebraska
The New York City folk scene of the early 1960s has become so foundational, so seminal in American cultural mythology, it is easy to forget that those youngsters were revivalists too: middle class kids disenchanted with materialism, the post-war industrial boom and its sordid underbelly of global domination,
When I meet Nathan Salsburg, the solo guitarist and folk music archivist is sitting with his 6-week-old daughter, Talya. He’s calling over Zoom from his home in Louisville, Kentucky, where he lives with his wife and frequent collaborator, the songwriter Joan Shelley. Over his shoulder, I see a vivid green
ABBA have returned after decades of inactivity with a new album and a futuristic virtual London concert residency, both named Voyage.
The Swedish pop stars unveiled two new songs and confirmed the Nov. 5 release of Voyage, their first studio album since 1981’s The Visitors. You can
IT’S a cold day in the Colinton area of south-west Edinburgh when I arrive at the home of artist and playwright John Byrne, a longtime friend of the late Gerry Rafferty, widely regarded as Scotland’s greatest pop songwriter.
The Paisley Buddies enjoyed a career-spanning association with Byrne providing artwork for … Read more