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...
Indoor Pets Are Escaping Into The Outside World
Bands change their names for all sorts of reasons: different lineup, new sound, copyright infringement lawsuits, or somebody else has already nabbed it. For Indoor Pets it was none of the above. Known as Get Inuit until late last year, the quartet made the change...
Fontaines D.C. Boys In The Better Land
Fontaines D.C. comprise Grian Chatten (Vocals), Conor Deegan III (Bass), Carlos O'Connell and Conor Curley (Guitars) and Tom Coll (Drums). They met as a quintet in Dublin, influenced and driven in equal measure by the rich history of their hometown’s counter-culture,...
Life is Good On The Open Road For Trampled By Turtles
Celebrated Minnesota sextet Trampled By Turtles have announced details of their long-awaited new album Life Is Good On The Open Road, due for release via Thirty Tigers on June 1. After an indefinite hiatus, the band are returning with their first new album in four...
The Ebb & Flow Of Blue Rose Code
In the space of a few short years and the release of well-received albums North Ten, The Ballads Of Peckham Rye, and And Lo The Bird Is On The Wing, Blue Rose Code has built a growing reputation as a powerful writer and performer, gaining extensive radio play and the...
The Exorcism Of Jenny Wilson
It seems that each day even more sickening misogyny is exposed in the media. However increasingly women are fighting back and refusing to keep their experiences hidden away. They are taking back the power and the control and in so, they are defining themselves as...
Ferris & Sylvester: Americana SW16 Style
With 2018 a blank canvas to paint with exciting new musical talent, Ferris & Sylvester’s modern take on Brit folk is a great place to start. The singer-songwriting duo release their forthcoming EP Made in Streatham on 2 February 2018 to follow up last year’s...
Albums Of The Year 2017
In a bumper year of great albums it has been so difficult for every one of our photographers and journalists to choose their best albums of the year. 2017 saw album releases from Bleachers, Noel Gallagher, Perfume Genius, St Vincent, Lorde, Killers, Liam, Arcade Fire,...
Mark Mathews – Carrier Bags, Careers and New Music to Heal
It’s a bustling Tuesday lunchtime when I meet Mark Mathews - arguably the hardest working solo artist in the UK right now - for the first time in Camden, North London, the backdrop where Rachel Lipsitz will later take her portraits of Mark. “Over there they used to do...
Promise Realised: Lukas Nelson And The Promise Of The Real
Country music has come a long way, there are now as many variants and classifications into sub groups as there are for rock and roll. The music crosses over into all other musical genres. The prevailing image of country as ‘Big Hat’ corporate stadium bands who sing...
Nothing But Thieves – Launch of #IAMWHOLE for World Mental Health Day
This morning, alt rock band and Southend’s finest Nothing But Thieves launched the #IAMWHOLE campaign at London’s famous BT Tower and performed an exclusive acoustic set. 10 October 2017 marks World Mental Health Day and the band have lent the title track of their...
The dB’s: Taking Liberties At The Hope & Anchor 1981
In the early 1980s after the punk revolution had being taken over by New Wave, New Romantics and in America by the Second British Invasion. In a slight reversal of this along came a small number of bands from the New York City who wanted to do something more grittier,...
Buck & Evans: The Debut Album & A Gig In My Lounge
As can sometimes fortuitously happen in the case of your favourite artists, I discovered the band Buck & Evans completely by accident. They were playing the inaugural Ramblin’ Man Fair festival in 2015, buried in an unassuming mid-afternoon slot on the curiously...
Feature: Hannah White, Turning the Tide for Grassroots Venues
The last decade has been a tough time for music as the way we consume it changes and generating revenue becomes increasingly challenging. One consequence of this change has been less funding being made available for promoting new talent, both from record companies and...
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