Allegra Krieger’s Graphically Jarring ‘Forgot’
Today we share the harrowing discomfort of ‘Forgot’, the graphic and jarring new single from New York City based singer-songwriter Allegra Krieger. It’s a track that starkly lays bare the moment of painful realisation that all sense of self control and self regard has been surrendered to and subsumed by obsession, self loathing, manipulation, and […]
With Revolutionary Defiance Ayoni Delivers A Black Woman’s Truth
‘Unmoved’ is the most vulnerable I’ve ever been about my experience existing as a Black woman in this world. I recorded, produced, and mixed this in early June, just a couple weeks ago, at a time when the conversation about Black women’s erasure, exploitation, and disrespect in this world, in our industries, and in our […]
UPDATE: New Folk Country & Singer-Songwriter – A Independent Music Playlist By Indie30 on Spotify
There’s some superb music milling around the independent folk and country realm at present, especially the former. Our latest update to our New Folk, Country & Singer-Songwriter Playlist on Spotify is reflective of this and features some standout tracks from five fine new albums released last Friday. They are by Cleveland artist Emily Keener, Toronto […]
Update: New Folk Country & Singer-Songwriter – An Indie30 Playlist on Spotify
The current state of play in our New Folk Country Singer-Songwriter Playlist is the result of the addition of no less than 20 new tracks emanating from a number of stellar full length releases. Country highlights include the title track from Nashville singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt‘s fourth album, the multi-faceted Walking Proof. Quality bluegrass in the […]
New Folk Country & Singer-Songwriter – A Playlist by Indie30 on Spotify
The quality keeps coming thick and fast in this third week of January, the week the music world kicks back into gear. Just added another seven quality tracks to our New Folk Country & Singer-Songwriter Playlist on Spotify over the past day or so. They come courtesy of (with related release details in brackets) Melbourne […]
Anna Cordell Shares Searchingly Intimate Third Single From Forthcoming LP, Nobody Knows Us
Next month will see Melbourne artist Anna Cordell release her long awaited and much anticipated debut album Nobody Knows Us. Having shared its first two singles, the subtle drama of ‘You’ and the spiritual title track late last year, she now shares the earnest and vexed third, ‘Tried So Hard’. Musically, a delicate underlying drift carries […]
Nadia Reid Shares Harrowing Yet Uplifting New Single ‘Get The Devil Out’
Dunedin singer-songwriter Nadia Reid continues to add to her place in the annals of folk music greatness with the release of the flawless second single, ‘Get The Devil Out’ from her forthcoming album Out of My Province. Characterised by the symbiotic relationship between Reid’s singularly immaculate voice and the pace and dynamic of her exquisitely […]
Tracks of 2019 Series: Folk, Country & Singer Songwriter – An End of Year Independent Music Playlist by Indie30 on Spotify
That’s a wrap for our New Folk Country Singer-Songwriter Playlist on Spotify so that also means its companion playlist our Tracks of 2019 Series: Folk Country Singer Songwriter edition can now take centre stage for the next six or so weeks while we take a break. Containing all 700+ tracks play-listed during 2019 plus a […]
UPDATE: New Folk Country Singer Songwriter – An Independent Music Playlist By Indie30 on Spotify
Our last Folk, Country & Singer Songwriter Playlist on Spotify features some fine new tracks to finish the year with. We start with the new single from Dunedin singer-songwriter Nadia Reid. The powerful ‘Best Thing’ is the first track to come from her new album Out of My Province due out on March 6 via […]
Josienne Clarke Releases Exceptional Solo Debut LP
“These are not love songs, these are life songs; life lines to save me from sinking” After “(breaking) up with everything but songwriting” during 2018, English folk singer-songwriter Josienne Clarke decamped to the desolation of Scotland’s west, the Isle of Bute to be exact, and subjected herself to a layered reckoning both professionally and personally. […]