Review: Andrew Vladeck – The Wheel

Andrew Vladeck – The Wheel End Up Records 2009 [tags: alt country, country, folk, singer-songwriter, 2009] Listen while reading: The Magnet (from The Wheel) Hold Me Back (from The Wheel) ___________________________________________________ We take a little genre jump, but keep up the good quality of yesterday’s music by Lindsay Clark. And so Brooklyn/New York based folk/alt [...]

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Review: Lindsay Clark – Thistle The Maker

Lindsay Clark – Thistle The Maker self-released 2009 [tags: great, acoustic, folk, nothing, else, 2010] Listen while reading: Blackbirds (from Thistle The Maker) Daybreak (from Thistle The Maker) ___________________________________________________ I hope you are ready for some of the best acoustic folk I listened to in a long time. Lindsay Clark’s album Thistle The Maker, which [...]

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Review: Zachary Cale – Come Quietly / The Wedding Party 7″

Zachary Cale – Come Quietly / The Wedding Day 7″ All Hands Electric 2010 [tags: folk, psychedelic slow alternative, 7", 2010] Listen while reading: Come Quietly (from Come Quietly/The Wedding party 7”) ___________________________________________________ Are you looking for some Saturday afternoon music? Well, I think I can provide you with some goods here. Zachary Cale, singer-songwriter [...]

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Review: Out Like Lambs – Field Recordings Vol. 1

Out Like Lambs – Field Recordings Vol. 1 Brown Buffalo Tapes 2010 [tags: folk, noise, garage, lo-fi, tape. 2010] Listen while reading: Old Whispers (from Field Recordings Vol. 1) Archangel (from Field Recordings Vol. 1) ___________________________________________________ No, the picture above has nothing to do with goregrind or death metal or even animal abuse. It’s the [...]

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*CONTEST! WIN A CD!* Review: Various Artists – Gold & Silver Compilation #1

Various Artists – Gold & Silver Compilation #1 self-released 2010 [tags: acoustic, folk, compilation, 2010] Listen while reading: Frère De Song – In My Room (from Gold & Silver Compilation #1) Jonathan Hicks – Song For Sailors (from Gold & Silver Compilation #1) Annalena Bludau – Laces Of Your Shoes (from Gold & Silver Compilation [...]

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Review: Tim And Sam’s Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam – Life Stream

Tim And Sam’s Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam – Life Stream Hooked On Music 2010 [tags: acoustic, indie folk, post rock, 2010] Listen while reading: Choices (from Life Stream) download it! ___________________________________________________ Tim And Sam’s Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam, well, let’s just call them Tim & [...]

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Review: White Hinterland – Kairos

White Hinterland – Kairos Dead Oceans 2010 [tags: again: nothing but beautiful dream pop, 2010] Listen while reading: Icarus (from Kairos) download it! No Logic (from Kairos) download it! ___________________________________________________ It’s time to get to the last one of this year’s current Big 3 of dream pop albums. Beach House and jj are featured already, [...]

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Review: jj – N° 3

jj – N° 3 Secretly Canadian 2010 [tags: nothing but beautiful dream pop, 2010] Listen while reading: Let Go (from N° 3) download it! Light (from N° 3) ___________________________________________________ There are two possibilities: either I’m not really into what’s going on in the dream pop scene or there is not much going on at all. [...]

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Review: Robin Grey – Strangers With Shoes

Robin Grey – Strangers With Shoes self-released 2010 [tags: acoustic, folk, 2010] Listen while reading: Montreal (from Strangers With Shoes) download it! I Love Leonard Cohen (from Strangers With Shoes) download it! ___________________________________________________ A little bit late, but finally Robin Grey gets featured here at CFM too. Early in January I found his album through [...]

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Review: Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou

Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou Loose 2010 [tags: acoustic, folk, female vocalist, husband and wife duo, great, 2010] Listen while reading: Allotment Song (from Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou) download it! England (from Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou) ___________________________________________________ It seems very odd to me that a label with two outstanding releases this [...]

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Review: Greg Haines – Until The Point Of Hushed Support

Greg Haines – Until The Point Of Hushed Support Sonic Pieces 2010 [tags: contemporary classic, ambient, electronica, very dark, 2010] Listen while reading: Marc’s Descent (from Until The Point Of Hushed Support) ___________________________________________________ Waiting time is over, because one of my favorite German labels, Sonic Pieces, has officially announced its next release. If you remember [...]

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Sunday Morning News: Re-launch of Yer Bird Records & Uncles to release debut album on Aluminum Records April 15 (first two tracks available)

Yer Bird Records Listen while reading: Hezekiah Jones – Traffic To The Sea (from Bread Of Teeth EP) download song! ___________________________________________________ As a CFM reader there is a fair chance that you know J. Tillman (of course you do…) and therefore I assume that you are also familiar with his amazing 2007 Cancer And Delirium [...]

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Quickie: *Get a free CD!* Various Artists – Dreamboat 2010

Various Artists – Dreamboat 2010 free compilation (DOWNLOAD or GET CD!) Dreamboat 2010 [tags: indie rock, acoustic folk, electronics, FREE, sampler, 2010] Listen while reading: Whalebone Polly – The Turnip Turned (from Dreamboat 2010) download song! Three-Conored Moon – The Applauding Rain (from Dreamboat 2010) download song! This Is The Kit – Moon (from Dreamboat [...]

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Introducing: Devolver – Christs Lane

Devolver – Christs Lane free album (DOWNLOAD!) self-released 2010 [tags: indie rock, psychedelic, FREE ALBUMS, great music, 2010, approved downloads] Listen while reading: Bottom Line (from Christs Lane) download song! or download entire album! Suncreep (from Christs Lane) download song! or download entire album! Sleep The Golden Ages (from Christs Lane) download song! or download [...]

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Review: Josh Abbott Band – She’s Like Texas

Josh Abbott Band – She’s Like Texas Pretty Damn Tough Records 2010 [tags: country rock, country pop, (folk), 2010] Listen while reading: She’s Like Texas (from She’s Like Texas) Hot Water (from She’s Like Texas) ___________________________________________________ Sometimes strange things happen – a few weeks ago I heard of a man driving his car over a [...]

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Sundries! (Help “This Frontier Needs Heroes” raise some money for their new album | Watch the new video from folk band “Two Bicycles” (acoustic folk) | Do you know “Amy Annelle”? You should!)

Sundries! Help This Frontier Needs Heroes [tags: alt country, pledge some money] Firefly (from This Frontier Needs Heroes) *** Hello there, dear CFM readers, I’m a bit lazy today and won’t do a full review. But this also gives me the opportunity to spread the news about some topics. First of all: I hope you [...]

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Some words about: MacGregor Burns – This Is Gonna Be That Kind Of Party

MacGregor Burns – This Is Gonna Be That Kind Of Party Environmental Aesthetics 2010 [tags: lo-fi, acoustic, folk, 2010] Listen while reading: Home Sweet Tomb (from This Is Gonna Be That Kind Of Party) You Sold It (from This Is Gonna Be That Kind Of Party) Way Out There (from This Is Gonna Be That [...]

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Review: Shelley Miller – When It’s All Gone, You Come Back

Shelley Miller – When It’s All Gone, You Come Back self-released 2010 [tags: acoustic, folk, jazzy, 2010] Listen while reading: Buckle To Burn (from When It’s All Gone, You Come Back) Blame The Sky (from When It’s All Gone, You Come Back) ___________________________________________________ I’m proud to introduce to you: Shelley Miller, songstress hailing from Chicago/Illinois [...]

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New CFM e-mail address!

Dear readers, dear bands, dear labels, Due to massive problems with my old e-mail provider GMX, I was forced to create a new mail address. All the blog pages are already updated. The problem seems to be caused by the new German law regarding the Telecommunications data retention wherefore GMAIL and Hotmail seem to be [...]

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Review: Corey Isenor – Frost

Corey Isenor – Frost self-released 2010 [tags: folk, indie folk, indie pop folk, 2010] Listen while reading: The Weather (from Frost) As A Ghost (from Frost) ___________________________________________________ This post should have been written some days earlier and by now you maybe know Corey Isenor (hailing from Sackville/Canada) already, because both Herohill and Slowcoustic did great [...]

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