It’s Paul Simon’s birthday today so we asked some of our favourite bands to pick their favourite of his songs: Worry Dolls: American Tune Dave Gerard: Graceland Sophie Jamieson and Patch & the Giant guitarist/banjo player Liam Hoflay: Call Me…
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/113661176″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Whistling, a little light tinkling on the ivories and a Matrix-style musing on the dreamlike qualities of love and death make ‘Death is Like a Dream We’ll Have’ simultaneously lighthearted and sad.…
We’ve all had those fantasies, right? You turn up to see your favourite band play live but the bassist/drummer/singer/tambourine player is taken ill and you’re somehow called up on stage to take their place… Well, if Emily Barker & The…
From deep inside the mind of songwriter and arranger Gabe Birnbaum come the twisted sounds which make up Wilder Maker’s second full length release Year of Endless Light. This is Americana as freeform jazz, a blending of styles that blurs…
There may only be two of them to date, but it is already clear that when you drop the needle on an Anna Calvi record, you enter a world quite unlike any other. Her world is one of cinematic flair,…
Folk musician and doctor Sukh was one of our first ever Songs of the Day earlier this year with his track Kings. With his debut album out next month, we thought it was about time we found out a…