Folk

Das Body and Sweet Crude performed some addicting uptempo dance songs to Wednesday's SXSW schedule in Austin, Texas.

The noise and ache that stream through these songs recall the blues, and support literate and often poetic lyrics.

Gurr and Priests were among the bands performing on Tuesday, March 12 during South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX.

'Songs of Our Native Daughters' from Our Native Daughters is as rich and textured, and fraught with violence and emotional turmoil, as the history of Africans in the West.

Rock music will always come first in my world, but you'll see an eclectic list of everything from jazz-hop (Anderson .Paak) to metal, country, electronica, R&B, and folk rock.

Rock and roll is alive and well - and didn't need a Zeppelin clone to prove it in 2018.

If you pine for the heady days of Joni Mitchell and Poco, then Pale Mara should soothe your soul.

'The Al Purdy Songbook' proves once and for all that poetry in the right hands is relevant to everyone and anyone.

Superbly wrought by the Kenny George Band,' The Silent Saint' is wonderful, rife with imminence, warmth, emotional bruises, and fondness.

On 'Acoustic Sessions,' Roses & Cigarettes deliver stripped down country alt-rock, pungent with delicate muscularity.