This festival is a low-key gem that attracts a rich vein of local and national talent. We caught as many acts as we could so we could share them with you!

Carol took a real adventure in Americana—four nights of camping and three days of music in the middle of the woods in Wisconsin. Here’s her coverage of this epic event, with photos by Tom Smouse and Laura Lee Buhman!

Seasoned Vermont roots band delivers an album loaded up with foot-stomping roadhouse-tested originals and a few softer, mellower surprises.

Charlie Parr looks inward and outward, forward and back on his contemplative new album.

The Jenkins Twins’ latest EP is short and oh so sweet, weaving countless musical influences together in a swoony mélange of Americana you can lose yourself in.

Recent Minnesota transplant Jake La Botz stunned the audience (including Carol) with his electrifying double set at Icehouse 7/21/2021.

The multimedia artist gives us a deeper look into his boldly optimistic and tender-hearted debut album, Shining Out.

On this Americana rocker’s new album, the problems of quarantine life never sounded so fun.

Minneapolis-based folk duo Bad Posture Club serenade the beautiful and terrible parts of life on their gorgeous second album.

Carol reviews Luke Callen’s new album, Hard Sardine, track by track, and Callen offers his insights into each song!

The Sapsuckers at Icehouse, Minneapolis

The Vermont Americana artist talks about her unusual life path and her brooding new EP, The Hour.

The new release Gild the Black Lily by Harlem-based Americana artist Queen Esther is an instant classic.

A nomadic artist's spiritual travels in lockdown

The Deep Dark Woods lives up to their name with beautiful, melancholic, trancelike folk music on their new album, Changing Faces.

Carol reminisces about one of her favorite musicians and the best Americana artist you’ve never heard of.

Learn about four recent Americana albums we love, by or featuring indigenous artists from the U.S. and Canada.

For many music fans (including us), allegations of sexual misconduct by artists are disturbing and upsetting. Carol collected thoughts of other fans and tackled the topic from the audience perspective.

We’re celebrating the art of the protest song in Americana music with 10 of our favorite songs of anger and hope.