We’re really excited to have this exclusive video interview with Brian from Stornoway offering insights and musings on ‘The Bigger Picture’. Check it.
We’re really excited to have this exclusive video interview with Brian from Stornoway offering insights and musings on ‘The Bigger Picture’. Check it.
We all know that some of the best music comes from heartbreak, pain or a really rough time. There may be great artists out there who’ve never had their souls torn asunder, but we’d be hard pushed to name them. Proving this theory is Phildel who, after spending her early years in a liberal,...
Bushstock festival returns for a third year in the heart of Shepard’s Bush, West London. This year offers up a pletitude of acts including Sivu, Thumpers and Roo Panes all performing across four venues. Bushstock was set up by Communion records (Ben Lovett, Mumford and Sons) in the summer of 2006 and...
Minko is an ethereal singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist currently living in Cornwall, England, who has been known to veer between techno and folk, seeing no divide between the two. On this EP, Minko embraces the latter- but what does the New Bands Panel make of it? Becky Varley-Winter: This debut from dreamy Minko is a departure...
Pete Roe has announced a series of summer festival dates. The long-time Laura Marling collaborator, whose debut album Our Beloved Bubble was released earlier this month, will play at the Hay, Insider and Glastonbury festivals in June before heading up to the Outer Hebrides for the Hebridian Celtic Festival in Stornoway. Playing with a band...
The folk-phenomenon that is Alessi’s Ark has more good news for her fans this week. After the successful release of her third album, The Still Life and a sold-out UK tour under her belt, Alessi Laurent-Marke and her Ark have premiered a new stop motion video for single ‘Tin Smithing’ on Vevo. With over...
Zosia Mamet, better known as Shoshanna in Lena Dunham’s HBO dramedy Girls, has announced a folk music project. The Cabin Sisters is Zosia’s project with her sister Clara (also an actress). They’re asking for $32,000 via Kickstarter to make a video for their song ‘Bleak Love’. Kickstarter works by asking for donations to fund...
In his review earlier this week, Max Raymond described the debut album from Field Report – a band put together by Justin Vernon’s former bandmate Chris Porterfield – as ‘captivating’ in their blend of a ‘warm, gorgeous aesthetic and Porterfield’s earnest vocals’. If you want to see exactly what he means, you can listen...
Georgia Ruth has had a busy few months, working with Guillemots on new material as well as appearing with Pen Pastwn, the new band from Richard James of Gorky’s Zygotic Monkey. Now she’s releasing her own solo album, Week Of Pines. Recorded in Snowdonia’s Bryn Derwen with help from fellow Welsh country-folk band Cowbois...
Attention Laura Marling fans! We have FIVE, yes FIVE CD copies of the folk superstar’s new album Once I Was An Eagle to give away. It’s an utterly gorgeous record, but don’t take our word for it, you can stream it in full below. To be in with a chance of winning one of...
Fresh from her headline set at Field Day this weekend, Bat For Lashes has announced a one-off UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in August. Natasha Khan, who has Ivor Novello and Brit Award nominations to her name following the release of The Haunted Man last year, will take to the stage at the...
Ellen was the first one to say what we’d all been thinking: it felt like an indoor festival. As the last of a beautiful day’s sunshine poured in through the open windows on the top floor of Leeds’ Munro House we were treated to three outstanding acoustic acts – and just a little taste...
Jeffrey Lewis and Darren Hayman have contributed tracks to a charity album to raise money for Rape Crisis. Regal vs Steamboat, a 31-track double album, was released this week on Audio Antihero Records, with money raised going to Rape Crisis England & Wales and Rape Crisis Scotland to help them and their centres continue with their...
It’s Monday evening and we find ourselves shoulder-to-shoulder with an invite-only crowd, in a gorgeous, Georgian townhouse, hot under the collar and eagerly awaiting three carefully handpicked musicians to show us what they’re made of…It can only be another Society of the Golden Slippers. First up we have the sweetly soulful Raevennan Husbandes, who...
Christopher Porterfield might be a name familiar to those who have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Bon Iver timeline – he used to be in a band with Justin Vernon, DeYarmond Edison, before going their separate ways. Whilst Vernon found international success, Porterfield very much stayed put. He gave himself five years to practise...
When Louis Abbott was explaining how Admiral Fallow’s second album had come to have on it so many new sounds, he told us it was because his bandmates continued to surprise him with their array of abilities. And just in case you didn’t believe him, their multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented Sarah Hayes has recorded her...
Laura Marling is back with her fourth album, which could so easily have been a couple of records. Its 16 tracks fitting neatly into two camps. Following on seamlessly from A Creature I Don’t Know, Once I Was An Eagle refers to its predecessor’s subject in its opening line: “You should be gone, beast”...
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