Radiohead return and steals the show. The band’s fans have never had to wait so long between album releases, yet this doesn’t mean the band members have been quiet. Jonny Greenwood has continued making ever more fascinating forays into classical…
There’s something wonderfully off kilter about Jenny Gillespie’s latest CD, Cure For Dreaming. Rather than being a cure it seems designed to send one’s imagination fluttering off in any number of different directions. Songs morph and meld in much the…
On Sunday mornings way back when, two friends of mine used to do a radio show called Under The Covers, delving deep into often obscure but always brilliant cover versions. Years later, Sunday mornings still seem a great time to…
Perhaps we should apologise for today’s Song of the Day. Or at least provide a warning. This one can blindside you. ‘Elephant’ might be one of the saddest songs you ever hear. It might also be one you can’t quite…
The Felice Brothers will return next month with Life In The Dark, the follow-up to 2014’s Favorite Waitress. The first taster, ‘Aerosol Ball’, is a raucous rootsy number that finds the Felice Brothers on their strongest territory. It also comes…
It’s not often we have a video premiere for a band that is no longer together, but we’re not letting precedent get in the way of this. The Lost Left are, no, were Ben Pritchard (vocals, guitar), Bobby Crawford (drums)…