FOLKROCKTALK. Magnus Säfström, Jonas Löfvendahl and Matthew Barzun at the US Embassy, Stockholm.
• The former American ambassador of Sweden, Matthew Barzun is an avid indie music lover and a great fan of Kentuckyseven. Mr Barzun was Obamas money man and chief fundraiser thru the reelection campaign who gave BO four more years.
Matthew Barzun has emerged as the overwhelming favorite to be the next United States ambassador to London. The White House is expected to officially unveil Barzun as Obamas choice for the plum diplomatic job within weeks.
We rout for Matthew Barzun to land The Court of St James, and give ya´ll a gem from his fav Swedish artist, folkhero Kristian Matsson, aka The Tallest Man on Earth. Enjoy ‘Walk the Line’ from TTMOE epic debut-EP.
• Introducing Tyler Bryant, a 22-year old wonderkid from Honey Grove, Texas, who´s got the blues so bad he need an IV-pole to carry his electric guitar.
Reminding us of Jonny Lang & Jack White and got us shuffling threw our day with a smile on our face. Tyler Bryant is friends with Eric Clapton and have opened shows for Aerosmith, BB King and REO Speedwagon.
Full-lenght debut album ’Wild Child’ is here, check out this half n hour live gig via the great radiostation Kink FM 101.9 in Portland, Oregon. Skål!
LA-sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin are the pumpedup punkband Bleached. It´s a molotov cocktail tasting both Ramones, Merle Haggard and 60’s psychrock.
New album ’Ride Your Heart’ hit us April 2nd on Dead Oceans, where Destroyer, Phosphorescent, The Tallest Man On Earth and Bear In Heaven also camps out.
There is something extremely liberating with the roundnroundnround guitar and self-evident voices on this gem – ’Next Stop’.
Ya´ll into Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan, Andi Almqvist, and other gentlemen with that barrel-of-bourbon sound? Check out the ever fascinating Everett Parker.
”The songs for this album were mostly recorded in my bedroom in Bromma, Stockholm, but also in an abandoned war shelter in Sollentuna which also holds my day job as a painter”, Mr Parker says.
Well done, sir!
”Dirt I Will Be” is the first single from the album ”Irrevocably Human” which was released on March 2nd through Lucky Duck Music.
UK power trio The Virginmarys was formed in Macclesfield back in 2006. After a couple of EP´s, finally their high-octane full-length album King of Conflict is out on Double Cross Records. The album hit stores mid-Feb.
Check out great song Dead Man´s Shoes – a cracking acoustic version that highlights singer Ally Dickaty´s stunning voice. Behold!
Valerie June is on our mind. This bluesforce from Humboldt, Tennessee, will take over the world as we know it. And man she rocks.
The song You Can’t Be Told is produced and co-written by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and Kevin Augunas from Florence and The Machine. You can shake the BK-vibe all over, yet Valerie June got her own dirty-swampy-rootsy-thing going on.
