Jon Boden made his name as a founding member of Bellowhead but he also had a highly successful solo career. This September sees the 10th anniversary of his debut solo album Painted Lady, with Navigator Records set to reissue it…
At no more than a week’s notice Erin McKeown will release a new EP, According To Us, on Friday. Lead single ‘The Queer Gospel’ is a response to the ongoing trend of ‘religious freedom’ legislation being passed by some US…
Emily Staveley-Taylor, like all the best people (this writer included), went to university in Manchester. And while she was there she worked in a bar just down the road from her student house in Whalley Range. It might have been…
Wooden Arms released their new single ‘Burial’ on Friday. Inspired bu Edgar Allen Poe, the track flips between sombre lullabies and trip-hop basslines on its way to a climax of noise. It’s quite a thing. As is this rather dark…
Berlin is the unlikely source for this slice of Americana, a dreamy song awash with pedal-steel. Sami Simon, aka Edges, ignores the musical stereotypes of his home city to produce music which feels more at home in a rural setting,…
‘Slow Driving Man’ is taken from M. Ward’s eighth solo album More Rain, released earlier this year. Ward said of this new video, “Here’s a miniature movie directed by Carlos Forster for ‘Slow Driving Man’. It’s about a driver in…