You'd be hard pressed to find any better new band out there than Fleet Foxes.  We award them Best New Act for their uninhibited creativity, putting newfound vigor into the American folk revival.  Their self-titled debut album...

Folkies, gather round your next troubadour. Captured in the streets of Paris, he plays his guitar singing accompanied by a banjo player and a drummer, using a broom as his instrument. He ventures unexpectedly into someone's...

If you're looking for the next folk sensation, meet Horse Feathers, fresh out of Portland, Oregon. With violin, cello, acoustic guitar and subdued, hushed voices, let them take you away from your concrete jungles to the...

Little Joy is Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante, The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti and the charming Binki Shapir as frontman. Together, they've created a little gem of an album, the self-titled Little Joy....

Fleet Foxes always manage to conjure up a strange fantasy-like atmosphere of a time long gone whenever we listen to them, which is probably why La Blogotheque wanted them in such a space.  They first sing Sun Giant on the...

The Swedish sextet is back with a new video for their brilliant album Na Na Ni.  Filmed in stop-motion black-and-white film, the members are stuck on a train while a ghostly forest streams by their windows, like love on a...

Though the album preview onyh turns out to be 3/4 of one of its songs, it is certainly tantalizing enough for any fan of Bob Dylan's, Elliot Smith's or Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's to get giddy with delight for Furr's...

Fleet Foxes recently performed for La Blogotheque on a dark summer night followed by The Dodos, Vandaveer, Essie Jaine, and Noah And The Whale.  Though they are unfortunately vocally joined by some of the surrounding crowd,...

Bon Iver performed at the Bowery last Tuesday, opened by Bowerbirds, and got a rave review in The New York Times Art section.  Bon Iver ended his set with a cover of Sarah Siskind's Lovin's For Fools accompanied by Bowerbirds...

This video should expunge any doubt on She & Him's talent. Taken from their album Volume One, the duo performed three songs for MTV Canada (You Really Got A Hold On Me, Black Hole and Change Is Hard). Though The Miracles'...

The parallels between Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Bob Dylan are justified, and some even hail Robinson as the folk icon's possible successor. We say those people are just blowin' in the wind. Robinson is a fine artist...

A beautiful solo acoustic rendition of the song Team from one of the best albums that came out this year, For Emma, Forever Ago. Justin's longing falsetto rings out as the Black Cab goes around Buckingham Palace, along the...

It's hard to say why Sam Amidon decided to make such a terribly amateurish video for his song "Saro" but the song is just so beautifully heartfelt and touching that we had to share this with you. As it turns out, this is...

Mr. Lionheart is one that you will be hearing more and more of. Here's the first video off of his debut album "Catch The Brass Ring." Watch as he lands on planet earth and fights for his own true love.