Canadian band Austra are to release their second album, Olympia, later this year. The Toronto-based outfit will release the follow-up to 2011’s Feel It Break on June 17, when they will also play a lone UK date at the Hoxton…
Live | Fionn Regan @ Islington Assembly Hall
Fionn Regan flies below the radar on pretty much all counts but one: his music. His promotion is minimal (tickets were barely advertised for tonight’s gig), his internet presence is slight (despite nearly 25k fans on Facebook), and he rarely…
Artist Blog | Dave Pegg blogs week four of Fairport Convention’s UK tour
As the Fairport Convention Wintour comes to a close, Dave Pegg (‘Peggy’ to his friends’) looks back over the highs and lows (not that there really seem to have been many) of the tour, and looks forward to the next…
Album | Stornoway – Tales From Terra Firma
Stornoway have a bit of a history with FFS. Around the time of their first album we became a little frustrated with their insistence that they were not a folk band. We wrote our review of the record as an…
News | Bellowhead, Levellers among Cambridge headliners
Bellowhead and the Levellers have been announced as two of the headliners for this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival. The pair top the bill on on the two biggest stages on the Friday night of the July event, while the newly-reformed…
#4 My Morning Jacket – Leaving On A Jet Plane
Jim James’ workaholism is not yet on the scale of Jack White or a Dan Auerbach but he’s moving towards their little circle, a man for whom the daily life of leading My Morning Jacket, recording side projects and becoming…