Fresh from a deserved triumph at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Anaïs Mitchell admits she is reticent to play anything from her most recent album – the beautifully adapted traditional folk of Child Ballads – as she feels performing…
Look At What You Can’t Have Now from Darren Hayman on Vimeo. Apparently, after Darren Hayman recruited Standard Fare’s Emma Kupa for his new song ‘Look At What You Can’t Have Now’, they decided that the record should sound like…
Bookshelves by Jess Hall ‘Maps’ is taken from Bookshelves, the debut album from songbird Jess Hall. Although she now calls Oxford home, she hails from North Devon, and it is that region’s famed coastline which gives her so much of…
Happy International Women’s Day! If you’re not sure how to celebrate, just be pleased about how fantastically witty, current and alive feminism is in 2014, and watch the shiftiest-looking escaped tiger you’re ever likely to see prowl around a circus…
Cantebury’s Jo Hook has recorded her debut album Silence Surrounds Me with Geoffrey Richardson, 11 tracks of lush folk-pop which can shift gears from the slow and the beautiful to bright and breezy tunes in a matter of moments. For…
South Carolina trio NEEDTOBREATHE release their latest album in April, with this track ‘The Heart’ a taste of what to expect. Slickly produced but with enough rawness to maintain a rootsy charm, this is stomping-good Southern-tinged country rock. Rivers In…