Still Unmentioned!

Paleface - i have only discovered recently through watching Langhorne Slim and Avett Brothers videos, but he's been around since the early 90's - here's a short documentary...


Here he is playing with the Avett Brothers:


And Seth Avett, playing with Langhorne Slim - beautiful song!!
Careful of the bang at the beginning!

Cup Beats!

Creating my favourite 'unsigned/under-appreciated' anti-folk artist's, reminded me of a video by Lulu and the Lampshades, playing the cups, hope you enjoy:


This lead me to find someone even more crazy at the cup rhythms - played on 4 pot noodles, here is Ryan James:

My Top 10 Unsigned/Under-appreciated 'Anti-Folk' Artists

Click on the links to have a listen:

1: Melodica, Melody and Me 

2: Poppy and Friends

3: Kicaberry

4: Pete Roe

5: Mountain Man 

6: Lulu and the Lampshades

7: First Aid Kit

8: Jaymay

9: Beans On Toast

10: Peggy Sue

My Top 10 'Anti-Folk' Albums

1: Johnny Flynn - A Larum                        2: Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim

    

3: Langhorne Slim – Be Set Free               4: Emmy The Great - First Love

5: Devendra Banhart –                               6: Noah and the Whale -
    Rejoicing In The Hands                            Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down

7: Jeffrey Lewis -                                         8: Joanna Newsom –
It The Ones Who've Cracked It                      The Milk-Eyed Mender
That The Light Shines Through                  

9: Ragina Spektor - Begin To Hope           10: Moldy Peaches – Moldy Peaches

John MOuse

Check out what I just found:
a self described: "gay incest love song, between a midget and a giant." ... Hope you enjoy!




Read an interview with John MOuse here

A Little More on Anti-Folk

First of all, it isn’t. Anti-folk music, that is. In fact, many of its leading players make music that is, if not exactly folk, then folky. The Hong Kong-born, London-based singer Emma Lee Moss, aka Emmy the Great, is a good example of what the genre is supposed to be about: the songs on her debut album, First Love, combine intricate melodies, acute lyrics, intimacy, humour and candour.


It takes its name from a dispute in mid-1980s New York involving a musician called Lach, whose raw, punk-infused songs led to him being barred from most of the city’s leading folk clubs. To coincide with the next NY Folk festival, Lach launched his own anti-folk jamboree, and thus was a movement — if something as disparate and disputatious as anti-folk can be called that — born. To give you some idea of how disparate: in America, it encompasses everything from the haunting, laid-bare minimalism of Diane Chuck to the slapstick and silly-costume-wearing of Moldy Peaches. To give you some idea of how disputatious: in Britain, scenesters tend not to use the hyphen, make music that maxes on a kind of amateurish absurdity and misfit performance-art anarchy, and have little to do with folk or, in some cases, music (which isn’t to say some of them don’t possess their own startling gifts). Emmy the Great belongs in the hyphenated camp, as, arguably, does Laura Marling.