The evolution of Laurie Hulme’s Songs for Walter project from touching songs inspired by his grandfather to a rich and growing soundscape continues with ‘Squaring Circles’ – his seventh free single and the follow-up to April’s Earwigging. Here Laurie contrasts…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKKVLp-yU9Y[/embedyt] We conclude our session with Saskia with ‘Write Me A Song’, also from her recent album Night & Day. You can keep up with Saskia on Facebook and Twitter as well as her own site, where you can…
Every day’s a crossroads, which means every day there’s a different turn we could have taken. And you can, if you want, spend a lifetime worrying about what was around this corner or that. Sorry, we’re not trying to frighten…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro5Z98Y8yfg[/embedyt] This is one for the all the artists out there. FM2U (From Me To You), created and hosted by Roxanne de Bastion, is an annual one-day conference for musicians that covers various aspects of making music in today’s…
An Englishman with a fascination for Americana, Alexander Shields mines a haunting seam of shoegaze. Having worked with a larger ensemble on his last album, including members of Silver Jews, Lambchop and William Tyler, for Passover he’s recorded with childhood…
You mainly hear in sports that a change of scenery can do wonders for a player’s soul and production. In music, new scenery can provide a similar stimulation. When singer-songwriter Mike McFadden decided to move from Baltimore to New York…