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Austin alt-acousticians Milk Drive have released a first music video from their debut studio project, Road From Home. The song is SoHo, written by fellow-Austinian Drew Smith. They shot the video (produced and directed by Mike Abb) at a friend's house

The Toy Hearts, featuring British bluegrass sisters Hannah and Sophia Johnson, have released a video for the latest single from their Femme Fatale project. The song is The Captain, written and sung by the lovely Miss Hannah, with able support from

Is this good for the banjo, or for bluegrass? I mean Taylor Swift is among the biggest stars in country music. Sure, she's strumming on a six string banjo, but the video also features acoustic guitar, mandolin and fiddle. OK... there are

Beth Kruvant and Good Footage Productions are at work completing a documentary film on the life and artistic career of David Bromberg. And like so many independent films in the online era, they are using crowdsourcing site indiegogo to attract

Here's a precious piece of Americana to ward off the evil spirits of Friday the 13th. A pair of good friends and professional illustrators, Guy Francis and Stacy Curtis, both took up the banjo in the Spring of 2010. Each had

After a tornado tore through her north Georgia farm in late April, it’s no surprise songwriter Louisa Branscomb turned to music to help her cope. What did come as a surprise, she realized, is that she had already written the

Tonight's (5/11) poetry celebration at the White House, which will include an appearance by Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers, will be broadcast live online. Rangers' banjo man Graham Sharp told us that they were asked to perform an arrangement they

Sugar Hill has prepared a video interview with Sarah Jarosz about her upcoming Follow Me Down album, due for release May 17. Jarosz is poised to perhaps become the next singer/songwriter to emerge from the bluegrass and old time world, and

Well... it looks like I was wrong last week about there being no archived copy of the 2011 Mandolin Mashup video from the Berklee College of Music. Berklee mandolin instructor John McGann organizes this show each Spring as a showcase for

Saturday's edition of the New York Times included a feature on Sarah Jarosz, written by Andy Langer, one of her fellow Austinites. They talk about her studying at Boston's New England Conservatory, her upcoming sophomore CD, Follow Me Down, her roots