National Album Day: Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan
Blood On The Tracks is an album for every season. I first heard it as a teenager and it seems as deeply intriguing, as powerfully emotional and as satisfyingly comforting to me today as it did back then. Hilarious and tragic, soothing and bitter, lonely and redeemed,...
National Album Day: Violent Femmes
I first caught wind of the Violent Femmes six years after the release of their debut album, at the tender age of 14. Followed in quick succession by Hallowed Ground and 3, the Violent Femmes’ self titled album speaks to a younger audience, with the consequent...
National Album Day: Choose Your Weapon by Hiatus Kaiyote
This album blew me away from the moment I pressed play. I’ve always appreciated quality musicians who make you feel every note, chord, phrase, drum beat or symbol-tap, alongside eccentric melodic lyrics all delivered with passion and emotion. For me this draws me into...
National Album Day: Last Of The True Believers by Nanci Griffith
Before, Texan, Nanci Griffith secured a lucrative album deal with MCA, she made four albums for the Philo record label, the best of which is The Last Of The True Believers. At the time it was lauded as one of the best ever country music albums and bought the worlds...
Darren Hayman Celebrates Thankful Villages
Released on 9 November, to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, Thankful Villages Volume 3 is the final installment of Darren Hayman’s epic study of rural British life. A Thankful Village is one where every soldier returned alive...
Video Premiere Of Adam Giles Levy’s The Ghosts
Adam Giles Levy gives us a taste of what’s to come with his new video-single, The Ghosts, which is taken from his upcoming EP, Peninsula. The new video features Adam and his band and was filmed on location outside Barcelona
Discover Black Belt Eagle Scout
Black Belt Eagle Scout (aka Portland-based Katherine Paul) is an indigenous queer musician whose debut album, Mother of My Children, is about "grief and love for people, but also about being a native person in what is the United States today.” Paul has already...
J R Harbidge Turns The Screw
British singer songwriter J R Harbidge has announced that he will be releasing his debut solo album, First Ray Of Light, via Absolute Label on October 5th.
Percy Philips & The Quarrymen Historic Recording
A new exhibition to be launched at International Beatle Week on 26th August will once again see the old adversaries, Everton and Liverpool FC, go head-to-head in an entirely different game of one-upmanship. The Percy Phillips Studio Collection will chart Percy’s...
Hear the Gong! GONG-OH Records Label Launch @ Paper Dress Vintage, London
As record launch parties go, this was always going to be a special one. GONG-OH Records is an innovative record label and collective of emerging European artists based in the UK. Founded by Victor Marichal, Alessandro de Cominato (Bandini), and Mattia East (The Man...
Becoming Bristol Release Sort Myself Out
Becoming Bristol, formally The Exchange, have released their new single, Sort Myself Out. They collaborated with Los Angeles producer AKA Wolves who has previously worked with John Legend, as well as up and coming acts such as Lostboycrow. Britt Espinosa, from the...
Melbourne’s BATTS Releases New Song Shame & UK Tour Dates
Melbourne’s BATTS today releases her new single Shame the first music to arrive from the Radio 1 and Radio X-supported artist this year, following 2017’s well-received 62 Moons EP. BATTS (aka Tanya Batt) has also announced a string of London dates including a headline...
But Which One Is The Real David Kitt?
It was a triumphant night in Belfast for David Kitt. The room had fed off the music coming from the stage; the artists on stage had reciprocated. Kitt had come to the city with his new album, Yous, but the night had been shared between this latest addition to the...
Holy Moly And The Crackers – The Bombastic Folk Rockers
If you are a fan of Frank Turner, Skinny Lister, Gogol Bordello, or Imelda May like I am then you could do a lot worse than check out Newcastle's Holy Moly And The Crackers. They are one of the country's hardest working bands. You might call that a cliché, but how...
Bruce ‘Mississippi’ Johnson is The Real Deal, Baby
With a striking stage presence and undeniably soulful bass baritone voice, you should already be listening to contemporary blues vocalist, songwriter and bandleader Bruce ‘Mississippi’ Johnson. Born Bruce Lester Johnson in Starksville, Mississippi and raised in...
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