Jesca Hoop has announced a new album, Undress – an acoustic reworking of her 2009 release Hunting My Dress. The Manchester-based Californian produced The Complete Kismet Acoustic, a stripped-down re-imagining of her Kismet album, earlier this year, and now Hunting…
Dancing years are from Leeds, and we wouldn’t be surprised if everyone thinks they’re cool by the end of the week. This is their debut single, released today on local label Hide & Seek. ‘Here’s to my old friends’ has all…
We’re delighted to announce our 5th birthday party on 9th November in London. We’re looking forward to performances from our favourite folkies Worry Dolls and Gerard & the Watchmen and we’ll dance the night away with Hey DJs! And, as…
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…