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Photo by Avery Norman Angela Autumn was one of our favorite discoveries at this year's Green River Festival, and now the Nashville based musician is back with a new single. "Mountain Stream" contains everything that won over the Backporch Stage crowd last weekend. It bridges the gap between folk-pop and a more traditional, Appalachian style. The song has this interesting almost electronic element to it, kind of like an indie rock meets trip hop vibe to go with the banjo. Despite such non-folk elements, "Mountain Stream" is a folk song. Plus, the whole thing has a certain sense of psychedelia, giving Autumn a fully unique sound we're now fully invested in. Angela Autumn says of her latest single: “The song ‘Mountain Stream’ is a slack-tuned anthem about escaping something. It came to me one night when I was on a medicine journey and felt very otherworldly. I began singing words that did not feel like my own. But I think I was unearthing something deep inside ...

Photo by Shelby Brakken Laura Veirs has long had one of the most interesting and compelling takes on the folk and indie rock genres out there. Her latest single, "Pulse," is a unique mixture of singer-songwriter and a more experimental style. It starts out in the vein of 90's lo-fi folk-ish music, and it slowly gets a little more jammy as it goes on. By jammy, I mean less jam band and more like late period Sonic Youth. There is an interesting horn that comes in before it's replaced by noise rock goes jam band guitar. It's this wonderfully odd melding of the mainstream and the experimental that has made us such big Laura Veirs fans for a while now. "Pulse" is a great direction for her sound to wander in, and we're looking forward to hearing more. Laura Veirs says of her latest single: “This song is about feeling the pulse of being alive—trusting that something good is still moving toward us, even in the middle of chaos and suffering. It’s the most son...

Photo by Silken Weinberg Two months ago we brought you a new solo single from Nina Winder-Lind from The New Eves. Since then, we've been waiting to hear more, and we finally have a new song! While her previous single, "This is Our Life," started off as a fairly standard singer-songwriter/alt-folk track and got less mainstream as it went on, "Girls" starts off unique and stays that way all along. It's almost like an avant punk or post-punk song that went folk. At times, the song sounds like a hybrid of The Velvet Underground and The Shaggs, but maybe just a wee bit more accessible than that. Personally, I'm finding "Girls" to be completely irresistible, but I know my taste in music skews towards the left more than a little. If you want to hear something unique and interesting, Nina Winder-Lind is your kind of artist. Nina Winder-Lind says of her latest album: “‘Girls’ started as a poem, a kind of subconscious manifesto. It was one of those eveni...

Photo by Reese Layton Blondshell, aka Sabrina Teitelbaum, announced her third album and released the title track. "Violins" is everything we love about the artist. Lots of bands nowadays blur the lines between indie rock and pop, but no one does it quite like Blondshell. "Violins" is an epic track. It's a power ballad with the emphasis on power. This is the kind of indie rock that's going to be a gateway to the genre for kids that grew up on pop, as well as their crusty old indie rock snob dads. Plus, there's great crunchy guitar work throughout that leads to a killer solo. Blondshell has been on the precipice of superstardom since her first album, and Violins might just what puts her over the edge. Sabrina Teitelbaum says of her latest single: “This song sums up the album in a lot of ways. When I was writing I felt really drawn to images of patience and kindness, for example putting your head on someone’s shoulder, alongside images of violence. I was al...