Introducing Country Parish Music by Country Parish Music Steve Collins, formerly of the Owl Service, has linked up with Welsh singer Rosemary Lippard for a lovely new project Country Parish Music. With a marriage of sounds that feel made for…
Armed with only a guitar and a cello, husband-and-wife duo The April Maze seem to create an out-sized noise which they’ve kept a secret (from us, at least) by hiding out in their native Australia for all this time. Now,…
From up in Newcastle come Suntrapp, whose debut single ‘All The Seas’ is out now. It fills three and a bit minutes of these fading days of summer with rolling rhythms and memories of time spent at the beach, and…
Lily of the Valley from brett davey on Vimeo. American artist Allysen Callery will see her fifth album Mumblin’ Sue get a European release on September 9. The Rhode Island native is heavily influenced by the British folk scene of…
Anglo-American pairing Rue Royale will return next month with their third LP Remedies Ahead. Second single ‘Set Out To Discover’ shows off their pulsing, rhythmic sounds which can quickly get under the skin of the listener. The only thing we…
Midlake are back, and the Texans are promising a new sound on their fourth album Antiphon. Former singer Tim Smith may have left, but much of what made them great before remains, and now they’re branching out once again. According…
Break-ups are hard. Emotions are raw. Sometimes it takes a little while for the smoke to clear enough to see what, if anything, is still left standing. And The Civil Wars, in case you didn’t already know, is very much…
Louis Armstrong, born on this day in 1901, might not be the first name you think of when you think of folk. Or the last, or anywhere in between. So why does he make the select list of great artists…
“Hey, is Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson still alive?” reads a message posted on his rather desolate Facebook page. “I hope so, I hope he is well. Love his music, could use some more.” It has been a legitimate question. A…
London’s Harry Mundy is far from alone among English musicians who look across the Atlantic for their inspiration, but the story behind his debut album Colour Myself Back In seems to be one of those too-good-to-be-true tales from a land…