Canadian Tanya Davis earned a level of fame a couple of years back because of this video made by artist Andrea Dorfman, a reading of her poem How To Be Alone set to animation and live action and general goodness.…
#238 Tanya Davis – Art
#237 Kathleen Grace – No Place To Fall
Los Angeles-based jazz/country artist Kathleen Grace has littered her new album with covers of everyone from Duke Ellington to Tom Waits to the Meat Puppets amid the originals. One guaranteed way of catching our ears is to tackle a Townes…
#236 Patch and the Giant – The Sleeping Boat
The brilliant Patch & the Giant are blogging for us at the moment. They’re a London-based 7-piece who play raucous, jubilant folk and the band host a show at the Boogaloo every month. In their show they tell us about…
Album | Gill Sandell – Light the Boats
Light the Boats, released September of this year, is Gill Sandell’s second album since her well received 2010 debut Tarry Awhile. If Sandell hadn’t already established herself as one hell of a singer/songwriter, Light the Boats certainly sets it in…
#235 Elliott Smith – Waltz #2 (XO)
There are certain songs that catch you at just the right time and shape the way you experience and appreciate music forever. Elliott Smith’s Waltz #2 (XO) is a song that did that to a host of impressionable music lovers…
Artist blog | Patch & the Giant’s Sunday Fete Blog #2
Patch and the Giant are a harmonising, foot-stomping, roof-raising seven piece folk band based in London. They run monthly shows at the Boogaloo in Highgate, North London, which always have fabulous line-ups. In this, her second installment, we’ve asked Angie…