The Weepies a folk-pop duo comprised of Deb Talan and Steve Tannen two singerguitarists who had already released solo material met at Tannens concert in Boston while he was supporting his debut Big Seorita Mutual admirers they started writing songs t…

Though he had always enjoyed singing during his childhood in Cleveland OH Joshua Radin had never intended to be a musician He studied drawing and painting in college and only after stints working in a gallery as an art teacher and as a screenwriter d…

A gifted singer-songwriter whose rich voice and literate storytelling belies her youth she was only 23 when she released her major-label debut Brandi Carlile was born in the small town of Ravensdale Washington an isolated community fifty miles away f…

Australian singer-songwriter Sia relocated to the U.K. in the late 1990s and started work on her debut, HEALING IS DIFFICULT. Combining elements of folk, pop, and electronica, the album brought her to the attention of Zero 7--she contributed several …

Ray LaMontagne was born in New Hampshire but as he put it his family was just passing through His parents split up shortly after his birth and his mother began a pattern of moving her six children wherever she could find employment and housing which …

One of the brightest figures in the revamped soft-rock movement of the early 2000s, Amos Lee offers the sort of tastefully jazz-inflected singer-songwriter stylings that made artists like James Taylor and Carly Simon such stars in the 1970s. Lee has …

London-based Norwegian-born Kate Havnevik spent her formative years with the desire to become a guitarist in the jazz and classical worlds but these plans were derailed after joining a punk band at the tender age of 14 Since then Havnevik has explore…

Youthful West Coast singersongwriter Brett Dennen first drew attention in 2004 with the single Desert Sunrise The tune with its easy groove and soulful phrasing garnered enough spins on KCRW to warrant the release of his self-titled debut the followi…