The ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag so often draped over an amplifier is missing. ‘What It Means’, Patterson Hood’s song about the violence directed at African Americans of late, may have been a setlist mainstay during the North American leg of…
One of, if not the, most beautiful folk projects of last year was volume one of Darren Hayman’s Thankful Villages – a journey around the UK’s 54 villages where all of their First World War soldiers returned from battle alive.…
Loudon Wainwright III, the precociously talented songwriter and exemplary troubadour, is performing dates this weekend at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. Father of the prodigious songwriters Rufus, Martha and Lucy Wainwright, Loudon is known for wildly entertaining narrative songs with an…
“Varium at mutabile semper femina” – “A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing”. The origins of the title for Laura Marling’s latest masterpiece encapsulates her vision perfectly. Produced by the richly-gifted Blake Mills, the record serves as an…
Taking cues from artists like Emelie & Ogden, First Aid Kit, and Aurora, Eva & the Oak are a five-piece alternative folk outlet who aim to create ethereal and haunting soundscapes to pierce their listeners’ heart. Their clash between dream…
Have you ever dreamt of Neil Young in outer space? Have you ever imagined what it would sound like if he and a spacey glam rocker like Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie somehow diced up their DNA and created some sort…