It’s the first song Houck wrote upon arriving in New York and the only song (so far) that he’s written on ukulele. The orchestration is sparse (a bass drum here, an acoustic guitar there), though ...

Folk music appears to be in a pretty dire state on the surface. Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers have co-opted the genre to fit their watered down version of it, while their alt-country forebears in ...

"MAMA, THERE'S WOLVES in the house," sings Phosphorescent (a.k.a. Matthew Houck) in what may be the most representative line on his new album, "Pride." A onetime Georgian, Houck now lives in Brooklyn, ...