Folk Implosion

  • Two solo shows in Durham

    It’s always nice when friends come through town and ask you to open for them. I’ll be at Perfect Lovers on April 15th, tomorrow, with Roman Angelos and Scivic Rivers Then I’ll be at the Pinhook in Durham on April 30th opening for LAKE and Joyero After that no shows planned as I’ll be working…

  • Folk Implosion East Coast and Midwest Dates now finalized…

    Well, it’s been a while….I don’t think we ever did a tour quite this consistent actually. Come on out! There are ticket links to all the dates that still have tickets in the shows and events page of this website – except St Louis, which I can’t find a link for as yet. The room…

  • Folk Implosion single out today, first leg of summer tour announced!

  • Feel It If You Feel It

    Feel It If You Feel It

    A few days ago, the first post – reunion Folk Implosion release came out on Bandcamp. It’s got two new songs – like a double A sided single – with two additional tracks, remixes of those two songs by Scott Solter. It came out on limited edition vinyl, cassette, and unlimited edition CD. The vinyl…

  • Early Bird Gets T Worm

    Early Bird Gets T Worm

    I been working hard but not in this website format so by the time I got around to posting about this limited edition Folk Implosion T Shirt…it’s gone! But we’re not, anymore. Folk Implosion are working on two songs for a new single and hope to continue with more than that after… We are corresponding…

  • Top 40 Over 40.30: Duke Ellington, 1962

    Top 40 Over 40.30: Duke Ellington, 1962

    One of the things I admire about the jazz tradition is the fluidity with which musicians move from being leaders to sidemen. Take an album like Conference of Birds by Dave Holland. I mostly knew Dave as a sideman for Anthony Braxton and Miles Davis. But then Braxton turns around and plays sideman for Holland’s…

  • Old, but new: DFI on Vi-nil

    A blast from the past: Deluxx Folk Implosion have released a session of 14 tunes recorded back in the day in Brighton or Allston MA, take your pick.  Previously represented by a single track on the Kids soundtrack and a 7″ ep on Domino, DFI now lays all its nonsense punk cards on the table…

  • The Core is Getting Soft.16: Quick Shelving

    I’ve been spending more time than I really wanted to figuring out how to translate incidental sounds from loops and samples on my forthcoming record to a live setting this week.  I haven’t played live in more years than I can shake a stick at, and the last time I did this with Folk Implosion…