Milk Carton Kids All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do

Published Jul 09, 2018

The California duo of singer/songwriters Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan became darlings of the folk world with their three previous albums...

Bettye LaVette TD Toronto Jazz Fest, Toronto ON, June 25

Published Jun 26, 2018

The Toronto Jazz Festival had termed this evening a Blues Revue. That was a mite misleading, given that it was headlined by veteran U.S. sou...

Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore Downey to Lubbock

Published May 31, 2018

Few current singer-songwriters can boast the long and illustrious pedigrees of Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Each were members of lege...

Dana Sipos Trick of the Light

Published May 30, 2018

This Toronto-based singer-songwriter's previous album, 2015's Roll Up the Night Sky, was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in the ca...

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Years

Published Apr 02, 2018

North Carolina-based honky-tonker Sarah Shook formed the Disarmers five years ago and made a splash with 2015 debut Sidelong. Look for more...

Sue Foley The Ice Queen

Published Feb 28, 2018

This Ottawa-based blues guitarist and singer has been under-appreciated on the Canadian scene, though she did win a Juno in 2001 for Love Co...

Marlon Williams Make Way For Love

Published Feb 12, 2018

Like his friend, compatriot and occasional collaborator Tami Neilson, New Zealand troubadour Williams is a shape-shifting musical chameleon....

Marlon Williams Leads Emerging New Zealand Scene with Breakup Album 'Make Way For Love'

Published Feb 09, 2018

There is nothing like some personal trauma to fuel the muse of a songwriter. Acclaimed New Zealand troubadour Marlon Williams can attest to...

The Fugitives The Promise of Strangers

Published Jan 23, 2018

This combo has created quite a splash on the folk scene in Canada and beyond in recent years, making the folk charts, touring with Buffy Sai...

Collette Savard & the Savants Collette Savard & the Savants

Published Jan 22, 2018

Toronto-based singer-songwriter Savard has released three folk-rooted albums with former partner John Zytaruk, but is now stretching out mus...

Lhasa Live in Reykjavik

Published Dec 01, 2017

Nearly eight years after her death, the music of Lhasa de Sela continues to have great resonance, not just in her home city of Montreal but...

Kat Goldman The Workingman's Blues

Published Oct 27, 2017

Singer/songwriter Goldman has long been well respected on the Toronto folk scene, and her material has been covered by such notables as Dar...

Robert Plant Carry Fire

Published Oct 12, 2017

Robert Plant has conducted himself with more integrity and class than just about any other legacy rock star around. Regularly fending off ob...

The Barr Brothers Queens of the Breakers

Published Oct 10, 2017

The third album can be crucial for any band. Do they complacently settle into a signature sound they've forged, or take the opportunity to u...

Whitney Rose Rule 62

Published Oct 04, 2017

In a fairer world, it would be authentic country artists like Whitney Rose that sold out arenas and dominated country radio, not the banal h...

Petunia and the Vipers Lonesome, Heavy and Lonesome

Published Sep 15, 2017

In their 10 years together, retro roots combo Petunia and the Vipers have become popular on the fest and club circuit on the West Coast and...

Lynn Jackson Follow That Fire

Published Sep 13, 2017

Being 19 years and nine albums into her career classifies Kitchener-based roots singer/songwriter Lynn Jackson as a veteran. She may not hav...

Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer Not Dark Yet

Published Aug 16, 2017

Fans of acclaimed roots music songwriters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer may not actually be aware that the two are sisters. They have live...

Paul Kelly Life Is Fine

Published Aug 09, 2017

In his native Australia, singer/songwriter Paul Kelly is accorded the same kind of reverence and respect Gordon Lightfoot and Bruce Cockburn...

X Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, July 30

Published Jul 31, 2017

Seminal Los Angeles punk band X may never have scored the commercial success they so richly deserved, but their status as one of the most im...