Featured photo: The duo Roses & Cigarettes. Photo credit: Rachel Louise. The market for indie roots music is growing by the moment and spans folk, blues, rock, and beyond. In the spirit of the burgeoning scene, The Young Folks brings…
Album Review: Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear – “The Radio Winners”
On 2015’s Skeleton Crew, the unvarnished nature of mother and son earnestly performing anthemic Americana carried Madisen Ward and “Mama Bear” Ruth forward in a whirlwind of press. It was sort-of an unusual case, and that made it captivating to…
Album Review: M. Ward – “What a Wonderful Industry”
For the rebellious folkie in all of us, the idea behind M. Ward’s What a Wonderful Industry feels brilliant at first glance—or, perhaps, ridiculously self-important depending on who you ask. It is, after all, a proclaimed criticism of the very…
Album Review: Frank Turner – “Be More Kind”
The world is a big, beautiful place full of endless possibility. With how interconnected it has become through the annals of time and historic decisions made by our ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years, though, sometimes it can feel…
Album Review: Kacey Musgraves – “Golden Hour”
Kacey Musgraves has always had a spotlight shone on defying the immaculate—and arguably unfair and double standard-laden—expectations of country music fans to pursue a specific idea. Following the wildly popular releases of down-home roots albums Same Trailer Different Park and…
Album Review: Joan Baez – “Whistle Down the Wind”
With a guitar in one hand with another in a raised fist, Joan Baez came whirring into the early 1960s folk scene like a wildfire. For nearly 60 years after, she’s become known for whisking her crystalline voice into action,…
