David Wax Museum were elevated to national fame after winning a contest for a spot at the Newport Folk Festival in 2010, and they went on to win a Boston Music Award for best Americana act the same year. Describing themselves as “Mexo-Americana,” they fuse two highly musical cultures that rarely interact.

Sons of Bill’s harmonious southern rock is birthed out of the connection between brothers Abe, Sam, and James Wilson. 

Murder by Death is a baroque rock band who use classical instrumentation to write quirky, lyrically dense rock. 

Dawn and Hawkes are an acoustic duo whose romantic relationship pushes them to write intimate indie-folk americana.

Darlingside is a classical indie rock band.  The four men’s voices seamlessly intertwine to ring out as a single unit. 

Baskery is a band of Swedish sisters who play punk music on traditional instruments. 

The White Buffalo writes distinctly American music. Hailing from Huntington Beach, CA, they blend West Coast Country and gritty Americana to define their thunderous live sound.

With a few noisy guitars, ringing amp sounds, and a Midwestern drawl, Ha Ha Tonka grabs at folk rock by the fistful.

Dastardly marry old west folk and indie rock, making a palatable playlist for those who aren’t normally attracted to cowboy crooners. 

Will Phalen centers on melody and storytelling, and in turn, collides the two with flashes of the surreal and the psychedelic.

Crow Moses (Formerly Musikanto) writes hard-rocking Americana tunes.