http://www.strangeamericansmusic.com

It’s the kind of music that the Carhartt-wearing, hard-working, industrial beer-drinking, regular Americans would listen to — the ones who could end up on an episode of TV’s Dirty Jobs. In a sense, Strange Americans are rescuing something from the rust pile — straight-forward, no frills rock and roll, and a matching aesthetic that is heavy on songwriting and storytelling, but presented with reverb-drenched punch and passion — the way The Band or Crazy Horse would have done it.

https://www.reverbnation.com/alltheislandsmusic

All the Islands is a Minneapolis based folk-pop band dedicated to bringing contemporary power and punch to the wizened folk tradition. The band just released their debut album Modern Man in January 2016, which reads like a timeline into the band’s musical exploration. While the band’s genre is most clearly understood as folk/pop, each track points to a unique influence from jazz to bluegrass to rock. Yet, all the songs maintain their acoustic folk roots. Thematically, the album explores the parallel angst and beauty of living in modern society, with each song offering a unique vignette on the struggles of modern man.