Earlier this year, Efterklang released their lovely album Magic Chairs. The Copenhagen band have been performing together for over nine years. During that span, they've developed a sterling reputation for meshing beautiful melodies with strings, electronics, and vocals into a cinematic and cohesive whole.

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Yay for folk joyousness! Tomorrow night at the Mohawk come not one, but two of the feature fantastic folk-like acts touring today in these Great States, Raleigh's Bowerbirds and ol' Canada's Julie Doiron. You may be familiar with the delicate yet captivating Bowerbirds from either of their two notable LPs, including last year's excellent and understated Upper Air. The trio use accordion as an effective backdrop for their nature-tinged pleadings, and one cannot help but get the feel their music is just at home in the thick of the forest as it is in the depths of the city; for an idea of what they're about, check out the stunning video for "In Our Talons." more ›

North Carolina's Bowerbirds couldn't be more understated in their approach. When we last saw them at South By Southwest, they hardly looked big enough to be a band, and they didn't have much equipment. Yet when they started playing, the crowd fell silent, and some beautiful and unexpectedly huge sounds emerged. The combination of he/she vocal harmonies, basic acoustic guitar, and simple percussion somehow emerges as something greater than the individual parts.

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