From the category archives:

Folk

Today’s Vegetable:
I Am Just The Host For This Body

March 11, 2010

Last week I promised you some Honeycomb, so here it is for yer assured enjoyment: a lovely local gang of crackpots who know exactly what they’re doing and sound like they can take it wherever they like. I sense the opportunity to see them in small venues slipping away…
Five stars and two thumbs up, go [...]

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Best of 2010:
Citay – Dream Get Together
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me

March 8, 2010

Putting two more up on the Big Board today!
Citay’s super-Californian twin-guitar adventure Dream Get Together is a sweet leap.
Citay – Mirror Kisses (feat. Merrill Garbus from Tune-Yards)
http://www.citay.net
and Joanna Newsom’s latest, a triple-LP of unbelievable goodness (if y’all don’t know, ya better ax somebody). I might as well just put four Have One On Mes [...]

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Noise Pop 2010 Preview:
John Vanderslice / Nurses / Honeycomb / Conspiracy Of Venus
(2/26, Swedish American Hall)

February 17, 2010

The most bananas night at Noise Pop this year seems to be Friday the 26th. You’ve got Four Tet at the Independent, Atlas Sound at the Great American Music Hall, Spencey Dude & The Doodles at the free Happy Hour … but the show I’d pick would be the following, at the [...]

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Today’s Vegetables:
The Color Slides To Gray And Nestles In Her Toes

February 2, 2010

Tunng started out as a two-man folk outfit with heavy electronic influences and tweakies, but have continually evolved. Their fourth album, …And Then We Saw Land, finds them without one of their founding members and grown into a fully collaborative five-piece.
The sounds are bigger and closer to the British folk-rock tradition, which is just fine [...]

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Let The Best Of 2010 Begin:
Laura Veirs: July Flame

January 25, 2010

If you ever take a gander over to the right at that there “Listening To” section, you mighta noticed that Laura Veirs’ July Flame (Raven Marching Band / Bella Union) has been there a long-ass time. And with good reason: July Flame overflows with imagery both light and dark, so you’re never far away from [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
So I Placed All Of My Trust Into Your Wasted Apple-Throwing

January 22, 2010

You know when you wake up in the morning and you’re just happy to not want to burn everything to the ground? And then you find out that somehow your Smart telephone has uploaded a picture to your Facebook account without you knowing how the hell it happened, because you never put photos on Facebook?
That’s [...]

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When The Dusk Calls Us Outside [video]

January 21, 2010

Akron/Family: “Crickets”
(live at a café and confectionery in Vienna, via They Shoot Music — Don’t They)

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Farewell, Kate McGarrigle

January 20, 2010

It seems like we’ve said goodbye to a lot of wonderful musicians recently. It’s very sad, to be sure, but maybe it just means that the world is filled with more great people than we think.
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Sugar Baby from The Harry Smith Project

…and because this is Hello Vegetables, anything Nick Cave-related [...]

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Today’s Vegetables:
From Bow To Stern She’s Twenty Miles Long

December 18, 2009

I’m in a hella folky mood this week -

… so I’m gonna take a tip from Tim Smith and rock a little British folk. These are from the Black Swan, the 2006 album from the legendary Bert Jansch, founding member of Pentangle. The Black Swan is gorgeous and haunting front-to-back, featuring original and traditional tunes, [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
In The Light Of The Waves And The Comet’s Fading Tail

December 17, 2009

July Flame, the most recent album from Laura Veirs, is perfect for getting you through this winter. It can be summery and pastoral, but there’s plenty enough somberness and bite to remind you that you’re not out of the woods yet.
Out January 12 on Raven Marching Band (U.S) / Bella Union (elsewheres). (Extra bonus music-lover [...]

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