The voice of MC Taylor, the songwriting engine behind acclaimed North Carolina project Hiss Golden Messenger, crackles like kindling in a backyard fire pit, alive with ruffled spontaneity but ...

Folk Americana singers Hiss Golden Messenger and Hannah Frances sang songs and shared stories about sobriety, grief and fate during a performance Wednesday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The proceeds ...

On Heart Like a Levee, the new album from North Carolina’s Hiss Golden Messenger, songwriter M.C. Taylor attempts to reconcile the two seemingly at-odds aspects of his being: that of a touring ...

2010s indie fans rejoice: Taylor Goldsmith and M.C. Taylor have announced an unprecedented duo tour. The two longtime alt-folk figureheads–who add lead vocals and guitar to Dawes and Hiss Golden ...

I was so enchanted by these recordings that I sequenced them into an album and passed it around to friends. They liked it, so I found a place that would press 100 copies on vinyl, and I sold through ...

Last weekend, two Triangle bands came back from long cross-country tours in support of new records. Both were exhausted and grateful, clearly happy to be home at last. Mandolin Orange kicked off its ...

The inaugural Evanston Folk Festival happened over the weekend by the shoes of of Lake Michigan at Dawes Park in Evanston, IL. Sierra Ferrell headlined Saturday, which also featured performances from ...

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER: (Singing) Feeling bad, feeling blue. Can't get out of my own mind. But I know how to sing about it. FADEL: That's a bit from the song "Sanctuary," from Hiss Golden Messenger's ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — On Wednesday, MC Taylor, known to many music lovers as Hiss Golden Messenger, will perform one of his most well-known albums in full at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington.

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