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DIG THIS: KINGSLEY FLOOD RECORD RELEASE @ BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL

Posted on February 9, 2013 by DIG STAFF

This six-piece indie folk band pumps out Americana tunes like nobody’s business, so see them while you can still afford it. Continue reading →

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EXIT POLL: DANIELLE @ BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL TUESDAY 1.29.13

Posted on January 31, 2013 by LAUREN PAREDES

DANIELLE @ KATHLEEN EDWARDS @ BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL

“It was a good show, but she gave us sh-t about the Bruins.” Continue reading →

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DIG THIS: THE MILKMAN’S UNION @ GREAT SCOTT

Posted on August 20, 2012 by SEAN CLANCY

Trust us. Mainly ’cause of the shotguns. Continue reading →

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DIG THIS: DASTARDLY @ RADIO

Posted on June 14, 2012 by SEAN CLANCY

These Chicago-based indie-folkers have put us in our place, quotability-wise at least. Continue reading →

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PEER REVIEW: GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS @ MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Blake Maddux

Judging by such uncivilized standards as the awesomeness of the songs and the impeccability of the performances, one might say that Great Lake Swimmers put on a merely comfortably above average show on Thursday night. Continue reading →

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GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS: NEW WILD EVERYWHERE

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Blake Maddux

Toronto’s Great Lake Swimmers delivers some goods and some greats on New Wild Everywhere. Continue reading →

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FOLKTOWN U.S.A.: THE DEADLY GENTLEMEN

Posted on April 20, 2012 by AMELIA MASON

What started as a homemade recording of a semi-explicit Christmas rap set to pop-y banjo chords has since evolved into a five-man outfit of prodigious ability and epic proportions. Continue reading →

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FOLKTOWN U.S.A.: LAKE STREET DIVE

Posted on April 12, 2012 by AMELIA MASON

Lake Street Dive isn’t, strictly speaking, a folk band. But they play a lot of folk clubs so that must mean something. Continue reading →

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CD REVIEW: THE VALLEY WIND BY TYLER RAMSEY

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Blake Maddux

Stringy-haired North Carolinian threatens to upstage his bandmates. Continue reading →

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REPORTING LIVE: OKKERVIL RIVER AT ROYALE

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Blake Maddux

The set list that the six-member outfit played was, like its albums, catchy and contemplative, with nary a cringe-worthy moment. Continue reading →

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FLEET FOXES @ THE ORPHEUM

Posted on May 11, 2011 by J. PAT

The only effective means of telling the members of the Seattle-based sad-song quintet the Fleet Foxes apart is from their varying lengths of facial hair … leading us to the most likely conclusion that that a softly-spoken lumberjack stumbled upon a time-portal within the rings of mighty pine he had felled and used it to travel backwards to pal around with his past selves and start a folk band. Which, as far as secret origins we totally just made up go, is pretty bitchin’. Catch them over the Orpheum, and resist that urge to try and make ‘em kiss. Pime Taradox!

[Tue 5.17.11. 1 Hamilton Pl., Boston. 617.482.0106. 7:30pm/$34+. livenation.com]

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THE TOWER AND THE FOOL @ MID EAST UPSTAIRS

Posted on December 17, 2010 by J. PAT

How those zany flannel-swathed fun-berjacks who make up Providence’s The Tower and the Fool have any time to make music between all of their youthful, beard-based indiscretions is really anybody’s guess. Then again, when you consider that Narragansett’s major ingredient is their tap water, all bets are kinda off. Ensemble folk nuttiness from the Ocean State comes to the Middle East Upstairs, with vocals courtesy of Therefore I Am’s Alex Correia and drums by Hot Rod Circut’s Mike Poorman. Wait, a folk group composed of former members of hardcore and emo bands? Consider it a white music Frankenstein. [472 Mass. Ave., Central Sq., Cambridge. 617.864.3278. 8:30pm/18+/$10. mideastclub.com]