Blog: Buzz Bands

To say that Amanda Jo Williams is the Joanna Newsome of the freak-folk scene would be giving the singer-songwriter a label that merely scratches the surface, and a lazy comparison at that. When last year's "Mary's Big Feet" introduced us to Williams's occult world, we knew the avant-garde scatting in the midst of swampy arrangements would lead to more oddball combinations of alternative musings. "The Bear Eats Me," her latest record (out June 19 on Neurotic Yell Records) featuring a full band this time around, is the fruition of her many intriguing idiosyncrasies: the sweet and sour, the [...]