Dear readers, My apologies for this playlist’s tardiness, for an owl likes to be prompt, but some distant cousins came to stay over the weekend and they caused too much carnage for me to turn a blind eye to the mess for even a minute. I spent all yesterday re-alphabetising my first day...
This fornight Brian has mourned the loss of Whitney Houston and celebrated Valentine's Day with a Marks & Spencer meal-for-two for one. The combination of perfect pop music and a full tummy has made him come over all soppy, so here's his playlist all about love. Sick.
On paper, Brighton’s Great Escape is a rather extraordinary proposition. Take three hundred or so up-and-coming artists, sprinkle on a dusting of more established acts and spread them across a hotchpotch of 30 venues. While that’s bubbling away nicely, throw together a crack team of industry types to muse over the future of the...
Below is our attempt at a comprehensive directory of folk artists currently on Twitter – of course, we aren’t Twitter deities and as such will almost certainly have missed out on certain artists. Let us know if you can think of any tweeting folk musicians in the comments below. Akron/Family Angus and Julia Stone...
Something’s changed in the Stone siblings; not drastically, but certainly enough to notice. Their first album, A Book Like This was characterised by its gentle lilt – the sort of music you could imagine romantic scenes in fields being set to – but from the distorted guitar fade-in, kick-drum beat and sweeping strings of...
There are times when trivial things begin to get on top of you, and you wonder how you came to be at this junction in your life. You daydream about taking a road trip on a summers’ day, along the coast and through hazy meadows, tranquil blue skylines and accompanied by blurred visions of...
Angus and Julia Stone have revealed that their new album is almost complete. Speaking in a radio interview with BBC 6Music the brother and sister duo said they had nearly finished working on the album, which they had been recording at Sawmills studio in Cornwall.
#78 Natalie Evans - Library Days May 20th, 2013
#77 Dodos - Confidence May 19th, 2013
#76 The Wood Brothers - Midnight Rider May 18th, 2013