Casey Kessel

PopMatters has a good article on Casey Kessel, a Nashville DIY country singer/songwriter with warmth, passion and humor in her songs and backed by a steller band on her self-financed debut “Ripple In The Water.” Check her out!

Hem – Funnel Cloud (Nettwerk Records)

They sound like they should be making their brand of dreamy folk music over the smoldering embers of an Appalachian campfire instead of on the stop of a brownstone in their residential Brooklyn, but Hem’s music blurs place as well as time.
 

Much of Hem’s muscle comes as much from the sweet crystal clear vocals of Sally Ellyson as it does from the potently restrained songs of Dan Messe. During the recording of Funnel Cloud, Messe’s home was flooded during the [...]