Amanda Shires wrote much of To The Sunset hiding in the closet of her Nashville home, but she opens the record by gazing at the stars on ‘Parking Lot Pirouette’ – “the stars, the shapes the constellations make, the burning…
It has been far too long since we last featured Natalie Evans on the site. Since then she has honed her virtuosic playing, continuing to pair complicated guitar or harp structures with simple vocal melodies to create a unique style…
What’s the best £20 you’ve ever spent? For Russell Swallow the answer is clear. He was 14 when he wandered into a Salvation Army shop in Suffolk, spotted a guitar and took it home. He taught himself to write songs,…
Joel Evans, AKA Tiny Eyes, wanted to write a love song but didn’t want to use the same old mould. “I heard somewhere that almost all songs are written about the start or the end of relationships,” he said. “What…
Jessica’s Brother is the eclectic project of songwriter Tom Charleston, former Ramshackle Union Band bass player Charlie Higgs and Wave Pictures drummer Jonny Helm. They mix elements of jangly indie, gothic country, and psych but while the styles change the…
It won’t take very long to realise something has fundamentally changed at Union Music Store in Lewes. Walk through the door and on the wall facing you, you’ll spot London Calling by the Clash, Let It Be by the Replacements…
Three years on from his last full-length record Alone, Together, Daniel Pearson has spent 2018 releasing a string of singles for download. ‘Pieces of a Puzzle’ and ‘Honest Man’ have proved internet hits with over a million streams, and Pearson…
The beard is gone. The hair, hidden below a trucker’s cap bearing the name of his new record, is an unfamiliar bleach blond. And the acoustic guitar is still in the back of the tour bus. At first glance, you…
Caitlin Jemma’s fourth album sees the Oregon singer step out stylistically as she embraces a sound as big and bold as the feelings in her songwriting. After three largely acoustic records, Love Notes finds Jemma rip through 10 tracks of…
Having approached his second album Upwards of Summer as though it would be his last, Ralegh Long has found a new lease of life. He is currently embarked on a series of standalone singles, and the latest instalment is the…