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Campfire blues

Snock a/k/a Michael Hurley
Snock (a/k/a Michael Hurley) is a banjo-strumming Woody Woodpecker whose campfire is a constant blaze of dreamy, peculiar Americana.
By PETER SMITH  |  May 28, 2008
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Solo shot

Gary Louris leaves the Jayhawks behind
Gary Louris had no grand designs for the beginning of his solo career.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 25, 2008
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Blndsght offers eye-opening art

Venue watch
Watson Atkinson is a dynamic man.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  February 20, 2008
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The Writ stuff

Cass McCombs finds his indie-folk footing
Cass McCombs upends standard persona-building moves.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  November 01, 2007
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Folk of ages

Fire on Fire snag a label, make it count
Young God Records is one of the country’s more prominent DIY record labels.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  October 03, 2007
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Unfreaked Folk

Devendra Banhart, Roxy, September 25, 2007
Devendra Banhart may have found his true calling at the Roxy last Tuesday as a small-time professional entertainer.
By RICHARD BECK  |  October 01, 2007
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Irish sprung

Fionn Regan makes his way to America
Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan answers straightforward questions with beguiling sidesteps.
By WERNER TRIESCHMANN  |  September 24, 2007
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Akron/Family

Love Is Simple | Young God
Already digested the latest from Devendra Banhart and Animal Collective and still hungry for more new freak-folk sounds?
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  September 24, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 90-81

These guys couldn't turn on a radio

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Take two

Ben Potrykus gets a second shot with Christians & Lions
In 2003, Ben Potrykus, then a freshman at Emerson College and the singer of the post-hardcore band the Receiving End of Sirens, made a decision that most aspiring musicians would call crazy: he turned down a major-label record deal to stay in school. VIDEO: Behind the scenes with Christians and Lions Christians and Lions, "Sexton Under Glass" (mp3)
By WILL SPITZ  |  November 27, 2006
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Brazil nuts

The return of Os Mutantes
Last winter, word got out that the original members of the notorious and influential Brazilian psych-pop group Os Mutantes were preparing to perform together for the first time in more than 30 years.
By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON  |  November 20, 2006
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Rare, please!

Versions found only on the web
The Internet and all it represents has never struck me as fitting very well into the faux Appalachian, outsider-artist æsthetic that Will Oldham has cultivated for himself in his various Palace incarnations and, of late, as Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
By MATT ASHARE  |  September 26, 2006
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Soft sells

The rise of indie rock’s cult of the singer-songwriter
Quiet is the new loud, pretty is the new rocking, and acoustic is the new electric. The Mountain Goats, "Woke Up New" (YouTube)
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  September 22, 2006
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The New New Age

The movement pulls away from the mainstream and gets apocalyptic
“In the United States,” wrote novelist and poet Jim Harrison in 1976, “it is a curious habit of ours to wait for the future when it has happened already.”| Daniel Pinchbeck discusses 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (mp3)
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 17, 2006
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Syd Barrett

1946-2006
Without meaning to, Barrett invented one of rock’s enduring archetypes: the visionary who burns brightly just long enough to become a bona fide star before plummeting into introversion and, in this case, a silence lasting more than 30 years.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  July 21, 2006
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Various Artists: Strange Folk

Albion
Given the hypnotic arrangements and talk of fairies, the 19 tracks compiled on Strange Folk might more accurately be termed “enchanted folk” or, more skeptically, “dippy folk.”
By ANDREW MARCUS  |  May 08, 2006
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Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice

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This sprawling New York–based freak-folk collective, led by James Toth (who’s recorded solo as Wooden Wand, minus the Vanishing Voice), play some of the scene’s loosest, least crossover-concerned music.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 14, 2006
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Bundles of Bolan

Rhino reissues T. Rex
If news of the Arctic Monkeys’ recent British chart triumph reached Marc Bolan, chances are he was smiling.
By BRETT MILANO  |  February 14, 2006
I Am Resurrected: A Tribute to John Fahey

Various artists

I AM THE RESURRECTION: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN FAHEY | Vanguard
The late guitarist’s best tribute is his own legacy of recordings, but those already familiar with this troubled master of the six-string’s work may dig hearing how various indie rockers from Boston’s Cul de Sac to neo-hippie Devendra Banhart to ex-Plimsoul Peter Case interpret a baker’s dozen of Fahey’s compositions.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  January 18, 2006

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