Browse archive 2013

dfbm #61 – Best of 2013 Part II (Folk Edition)

# american primitive, alt country, psych folk, lofi, drone, mixtape

Here are all the Dying For Bad Music favorites with focus on acoustic guitars and folk roots. American Primitive was a big thing in 2013, you'll find a lot of lists out there which referring to this term and they might list the same stuff as you …

dfbm #61 – Best of 2013 Part I (Non
Folk)

# post punk, psychedelic, psych pop, garage pop, bestof, bestof2013, mixtape

Here are the DFBM Non-Folk Favorites 2013 (no acoustic guitars!) as an extensive 1,5 hours long program of Psychedelic Space Punk (or whatever). The list is in no particular order - just as it sounded good in the mix. I hope you'll find somethin …

Holiday Rambler – There is No End to the World, and Nothing Can Shatter the Earth

2013 # folk, dark folk, americana, blues

If you are alone at Christmas, join the lone stroll of the Holiday Rambler. D. Alex Meeks aka Holiday Rambler from Toronto presents a very bleak and minimal take on americana. It's a lazy fingerstyle played guitar and the guy's voice. That …

C.Strøm – A Christmas Carol

2013 # folk, americana, outsider music, bedroom

Outsider Christmas Carols from Norway. Christian Strøm lives on the island of Ellingsøy and right now it seems pretty mild there. Instead North America is freezing. Lately, Strøm put a shitload of his tunes on bandcamp an …

Zachary Cale – The Lagniappe Sessions + more

2013 # singer-songwriter, folk, indie rock

Zachary Cale put his hands on Brian Eno, JJ Cale, The Stooges and Peter Laughtner in a recent session for Aquarium Drunkard. Cale got featured here at DFBM a lot and with Blue Rider the big players finally catched up. So this gives him hopefully more …

Daniel Bachman – Coming Home

2014 # american primitive, news, feature

Singles Club starts in January 2014. Subscribe and Kickstart the thing. One of the most prolific guitarists today, Daniel Bachman kicks off the subscription serie of 7inch records that will start 2014 and get heavily advertised since the last few …

Christian Richer, The Haiduks, Kinnta Records
Interview

# interview, psych pop

I asked Christian Richer of Kinnta Records a few question about his music projects and his label, tapes and the absence of release strategies and it seems we would be good friends if we were living closer to each other. At least we both flounder with …

Moses Nesh
Don't Speak To Me / Bird Nest Bound

2013 # old time folk, americana, folk, blues

... or a chain of coincidents. In August this year I stumbled upon a bandcamp recording by Moses Nesh who sounded really really old-timey for his young age. We exchanged a few mails where he explained a bit, why he is in old time american blues a …

Mixtape #60
Don't Speak To Me

# american primitive, singer-songwriter, lofi, mixtape

Here we are with a two hour long program of american primitive, lofi, weird folk tunes. It might work as an Halloween Sountrack too. At least the cover is spooky enought. You'll find some mysterious American Lofi Folk by Norwegian C.Strøm a …