COUNTRY/ FOLK

Country music has always had a soft spot for complicated relationships, questionable decisions, and stories that sound too strange to be true. Reagan Hudson’s “When Your Husband Gets Out of Jail” takes that tradition somewhere delightfully unexpected, transforming a throwaway line from a television court show into a funny, bittersweet…

Some memories do not fade so much as change shape. Scott Lowder’s “Ghost of You” explores that truth through a warm blend of alternative folk, Americana, and heartland rock, turning a song more than a decade in the making into an intimate reflection on friendship, loss, and the people who…

Mark Cee may have spent roughly three decades writing songs before stepping properly into the spotlight, but Ghost Talk Show sounds less like a delayed debut than an artist finally opening the door to a room he has inhabited for years. The Long Island-based indie folk/Americana singer-songwriter records entirely at…

Seattle-based outfit Pete Keating and The Renslow Trestle are bringing heart and soul back to the Pacific Northwest with their heartwarming single, “Tenderly.” Recorded at Seattle’s legendary London Bridge Studios, where grunge icons like Pearl Jam and Soundgarden made history, the track taps into mid-century Americana, drawing inspiration from legends…

Interview by Zara Miller. Siena Fantini Is Writing Open-Hearted Pop for the Girls Who Feel Everything. There is a specific kind of pop artist who knows how to make emotional survival sound like sunlight in a bottle. For millennials, Natasha Bedingfield did it with songs that felt like opening the…

Woody Guthrie’s songs have echoed across generations, inspiring everyone from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Billy Bragg and Tom Morello. But behind the folk icon was a restless storyteller whose humour, compassion and fierce social conscience still resonate today. As the award-winning show Woody Sez: The Life & Music…

Singer-songwriter and music student Gideon Unna brings a refreshing dose of warmth and spiritual optimism to the table with his luminous single, “Heaven Is Here.” Hailing from Kibbutz Ein Carmel, Israel, Unna crafts music rooted in human connection, gratitude, and a deep reverence for the present moment. Heavily influenced by…

Some performances feel like recordings; others feel like someone has opened a window into a living memory. Syna Awel’s Acoustic Live Session, released on August 3, 2026, belongs firmly to the latter. Across 29 minutes, the French-Algerian Amazigh artist brings together five pieces shaped by Amazigh heritage, oral tradition and…

What if a guitar could make a landscape appear without saying a word? That is the quiet trick behind Martin Lloyd Howard’s “Highland Mist,” an instrumental single released on August 1, 2026. The Reigate-based guitarist and composer draws from classical, folk, blues and rock traditions, but here he pares everything…

There is something wonderfully liberating about a song that sounds like the moment you finally leave everything behind and hit the open road. Brooklyn-based indie-folk artist and composer Elizabeth P.W. captures exactly that feeling in “Head West,” the featured song from the upcoming documentary OUT THERE: A National Parks Story.…