Wes Tirey – Home Recordings

Wes Tirey – Home Recordings

Wes Tirey was recently touring Italy and in the meantime the tape label Orange Milk Records released a cassette with Tirey's homerecordings. Orange Milk Records usually releases experimental synthy bleep drone cosmo electronica and with Tirey the …
J.T. Jamieson – home recordings live & demo

J.T. Jamieson – home recordings live & demo

American Primitivism and no end. Is it a trend right now? I don't think so. Solo guitar music was always around, just the media attention wasn't as big as it seems to be now. Which is fine if it helps artist to make a living from it or just i …
Lukas Read – Long Live Sam!

Lukas Read – Long Live Sam!

This is fantastic! I featured Austin, TX based Lukas Read last year, with his great Ramble Man, Ramble album. A fresh cosmic-country-music one-man show... He just released a mini ep, recorded on a mono tape recorder with plain guitar songs and his cr …
The Matchsellers – The Matchsellers See The Light

The Matchsellers – The Matchsellers See The Light

2014 # folk
I wrote about The Matchsellers last year and also about the weird circumstances that this american folk duo was living near to me, in Leipzig for quite some time. Unfortunately we never met and I missed them in Atlanta last year. But who knows - some …
Zachary Cale – Folkadelphia Session 10​/​4​/​2013

Zachary Cale – Folkadelphia Session 10​/​4​/​2013

In addition to my last post on christmas last year, about several Zachary Cale sessions, here is another superb one. He and his band entered the XPN Singer-Songwriter Radio Studio in Philadelphia, to record a Folkadelphia Session and add to the g …
Luke Hirst - Breaking The Hex

Luke Hirst
Breaking The Hex

With Farewell Adventures, Yorkshire based guitarist and if I remember right, music teacher, Luke Hirst introduced himself to a wider audience. It was a nice collection of well know solo guitar standards in best Takoma School fashion. With Breakin …
dfbm #61 – Best of 2013 Part II (Folk Edition)

dfbm #61 – Best of 2013 Part II (Folk Edition)

Here are all the Dying For Bad Music favorites with focus on acoustic guitars and folk roots. American Primitive was a big thing in 2013, you'll find a lot of lists out there which referring to this term and they might list the same stuff as you …
dfbm #61 – Best of 2013 Part I (Non-Folk)

dfbm #61 – Best of 2013 Part I (Non
Folk)

Here are the DFBM Non-Folk Favorites 2013 (no acoustic guitars!) as an extensive 1,5 hours long program of Psychedelic Space Punk (or whatever). The list is in no particular order - just as it sounded good in the mix. I hope you'll find somethin …
Holiday Rambler – There is No End to the World, and Nothing Can Shatter the Earth

Holiday Rambler – There is No End to the World, and Nothing Can Shatter the Earth

If you are alone at Christmas, join the lone stroll of the Holiday Rambler. D. Alex Meeks aka Holiday Rambler from Toronto presents a very bleak and minimal take on americana. It's a lazy fingerstyle played guitar and the guy's voice. That …

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