Usually, during the summer months, the music industry packs its bags and jets off somewhere nice and warm for a well-deserved break. Maybe 2017 is going to break that tradition, as music news seems to be coming in left, right…
With it being the Cambridge Folk Festival this forthcoming weekend, there is no better time than to announce the news that two of the most well-renowned Folk Festivals in the world, Newport and Cambridge, are to form a working partnership.…
In this modern world of processed beats and electronically programmed ‘drops’, it is refreshing to hear an artist take traditional music and add their own unique spin to it. Nick Mulvey has done just that on his latest single, ‘Mountain…
It is hard to believe that were it not for the power of the internet, Something’s Changing, Lucy Rose’s 3rd record, would probably not exist. In her press for this record, Lucy stressed how it was only through people in…
Henham Park hosted the 12th edition of Festival Republic’s Latitude Festival last weekend, and this writer was fortunate to be there for the 6th consecutive year. I don’t know quite what it is that keeps me coming back year upon…
Until last week, I hadn’t heard of ‘The Last Dinosaur’, the moniker of London based Jamie Cameron. When a track from the PR came into my inbox, what I heard stopped me from what I was doing; a rare occurrence…
After releasing a rather excellent set of songs under his own name alongside Jesca Hoop (Love Letters for Fire) in 2016, Sam Beam is returning with a new Iron & Wine record, Beast Epic, in the summer of 2017. With 11…
Chalk/Flint offers an interesting soundscape, and an insight into the creativity of Isobel Anderson. Vocally, Anderson shares many similarities with Laura Marling, and on this, her forth release, she delivers a paean to the ethereal nature of world. It is…
Nottingham’s own Jack Peachy has been on a prolific run recently, with this 12 track EP coming just six months after the release of his latest LP Clean. Bad Production is an EP that wears its heart on its politically-active…
Girl Ray have been making quite an impression on the music scene in the past few months. Their last single, ‘Stupid Things’ was given airplay on BBC 6 Music, and today, the three piece (consisting of Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnel…