Thomas Blake

Mama's Broke – Reunion

By: Thomas Blake

The terms ‘gothic folk' and ‘dark folk', often used interchangeably, could be said to be redundant.

Blake Hornsby – Brugmansia

By: Thomas Blake

If you look at the original psych-folk/acid folk boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was a primarily British phenomenon.

Nora Stanley – Glass

By: Thomas Blake

On first listen, you might mistake a song like Dying Twice as a straightforward piece of confessional folk-pop.

Rowena Wise – Bad Things Feel Good*

By: Thomas Blake

In the music industry, rawness is a commodity. Struggle and hardship alone are not enough. They have to be tapped into. They have to be shaped.

Mama's Broke “Reunion” Interview (Artists of the Month)

By: Thomas Blake

As Mama's Broke Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria make deliciously dark folk music inspired by their Nova Scotian roots, the Appalachian tradition and Eastern European tunes.

Elanor Moss – The Knife, The Needle

By: Thomas Blake

One of Elanor Moss 's many prodigious gifts is her ability to balance a quiet, subtle mode of expression with a searing intensity of feeling.

Alex Dupree – Talking to the Dog

By: Thomas Blake

Texan songwriter Alex Dupree has been making witty, warm and criminally underrated outsider-folk masterpieces for a couple of decades, both as a solo artist and previously with The Trapdoor Band.

Spell Songs – In Thin Air

By: Thomas Blake

Sometimes a project has so much potential, so much more to give beyond its original iteration, that it seems to take on a life of its own.

Macdara Yeates – Mudlark Ballads

By: Thomas Blake

Aside from the obvious – the great albums, the thriving live scene – one of the best things about the folk music coming out of Dublin right now is its variety.

Birdvox – Shamming the Drama

By: Thomas Blake

It's not unknown for folk music to want you to have a good time. Like anything passed down from generation to generation, part of its appeal – and