Underrated singer/songwriter Jesca Hoop teamed with Iron & Wine singer Sam Beam earlier this year for the collaborative Love Letter for Fire, which came out on Iron & Wine’s pre-major label home Sub ...

It’s nothing personal, but singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop does not want to share every last detail of her life with her fans. “We’ve lost a lot of intrigue as artists because we’re expected to tell ...

Following last years critically acclaimed collaborative album, 'Love Letter For Fire', with Iron And Wire's Sam Beam, Jesca Hoop returns with a new solo album, 'Memories Are Now'. Jesca's new nine ...

This week’s Notable Releases include Jesca Hoop’s Sub Pop debut, promising new folk singer Hand Habits, a lively new direction for Sinkane, and more. Following her collaboration with Iron & Wine’s Sam ...

Check out a trio of new albums streaming as part of KCRW’s Album Preview series, including Jesca Hoop’s latest, “Hunting My Dress.” Singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop has been blessed with some good ...

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“Empathy’s contagious,” sang Jesca Hoop on “Shoulder Charge” off of her newest LP, July’s STONECHILD. Paste’s own Ellen Johnson wrote that the specific lyric “might be the perfect thesis” for the ...

Jesca Hoop has been blessed with some good connections. Tom Waits served as an early mentor (Jesca worked as a nanny for Tom’s kids), who helped land a copy of her demo into KCRW’s own Nic Harcourt’s ...

The political is personal and hope lives with darkness on Jesca Hoop’s fifth solo album, Stonechild, perhaps her most ambitious release to date. It’s the native Californian’s first album recorded in ...

On Hunting My Dress, Jesca Hoop explodes the conventions of the folksinger. Her cockeyed melodies, emphatic beats and creative vocal arrangements are unusual but catchy. Overall, the songwriting ...