William Tyler will be familiar to fans of Lambchop and Silver Jews, having toured with both of those bands as a guitarist. He’s also a well-respected solo artist in his own right, creating soothing instrumental music with his guitars. His…
#58 Mark Mulcahy – She Makes The World Turn Backwards
‘She Makes The World Turn Backwards’ heralds the welcome return of Mark Mulcahy, eight troubled years on from the release of his 2005 record In Pursuit of Your Happiness. The celebrated songwriter suffered a personal tragedy in 2008 with the…
News | Neutral Milk Hotel announce comeback tour
Seminal 90s indie stars Neutral Milk Hotel have announced a series of reunion shows for the end of the year. The Athens, Georgia quartet, whose classic 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was fourth in Pitchfork’s top 100…
Interview | Alasdair Roberts on foundlings, the carnivalesque and becoming more Scottish
London’s Foundling Museum is full of intriguing artefacts. “Some of these things you’d think only existed in folk songs. But here they are in real, palpable things,” we are told before the first of the museum’s new, monthly folk nights.…
Live | The Leisure Society @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
“I think we must be the most English band of all time,” says the Leisure Society’s Christian Hardy as he politely suggests some audience participation towards the end of their set at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Profusely thanking everybody for coming,…
#57 Rae Morris – Wait A While
There’s a blissful simplicity to the music of Rae Morris: a voice, a piano and a bucketload of emotion. In musical style it recalls Regina Spektor at her most mellow, while there’s a touch of Dark Dark Dark’s Nona Marie…