How is it possible not to like a band capable of producing a song so lovely as ‘Kiss Me By The Water Cooler’? How is it possible to have anything but good will towards a band who seem to be…
Interview | Introducing…Folly Rae
Referring to her work as ‘Future Folk’, Folly Rae has been making a splash with new single, ‘Free Your Mind’, an eerie, other-worldly, but ultimately positive number. We caught up with this flame-haired dreamer to get the low-down. Hello, please…
#82 Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues
Happy Birthday Bob! And what better way to celebrate your 72nd birthday than with a reminder of what you used to look like nearly 50 years ago? The famous clip that accompanies Subterranean Homesick Blues – which was filmed in…
Album | Dear Georgiana – Dear Georgiana
Not enough people know this, but the Bandana Splits’ eponymous debut is the most exuberant record of the last five years and the best slice of upbeat comic-book girl-band retro-pop this side of 1962. Alabama-born Lauren Balthrop, one third of…
Festivals | The Great Escape 2013 – folk odyssey
We parachute into Brighton on Thursday evening, landing in the middle of the Komedia Studio bar for our favourite avant-garde Norwegian, Jenny Hval. She wows us with her utterly unique brand of experimental, part-spoken-word, musical musings on bodies, cities and…
Album | CocoRosie – Tales of a Grass Widow
CocoRosie was only ever meant to be a project that existed solely in their own circle of friends but, about a decade on from their debut album, La Maison De Mon Rêve, they keep coming back for more. Since that…