What with the searing heat and all that tennis hoo-ha at the weekend, your mind’s more than likely yearning for the dark chill of December: chestnuts roasting in an open microwave, heinous snowman jumpers and slipping over on ice…
If there has been a quiet revolution in folk music in the last maybe three years – and I do not claim for a second that folk music could do a revolution quietly – it’s the re-emergence of close harmony…
Neko Case is to play a headline show at London’s Forum in December. The American singer-songwriter and New Pornographer, whose new album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You is out…
Jay Chakravorty is the man behind Cajita and, following support from the likes of Tom Robinson on 6 Music, the multi-instrumentalist is releasing his debut LP, Tiny Ghosts. Combining acoustic guitar, sweeping electronica and touching string arrangements, this is minimalist…
To celebrate the US release of his latest album, Carry On (which has been out in the UK since March), Willy Mason has released this paper-puppet take on The Lion King.* Mason’s warm, husky vocal sails above the beats and pings…
Following what-is-to-be a spectacular Thursday, Cambridge Folk festival have not stopped there. Oh no. Friday brings us yet another spoiling day of musical fancies, ranging from trad, to contemporary, to country, to electric. Brace yourselves for another excellent lineup… The…