Sacramento’s Musical Charis have created a little gem of a record with Fool$ Gold. Knowing how lovely the band are (not many bands open their own music school for their community!), I was willing for this album to be good.…
Interview and album stream | By The Sea
“We hope it sounds like a series of failed Springsteen anthems played with too many chorus pedals. That is the theme.” Thus spake The Wirral’s most promising newcomers, By The Sea. We don’t really know what it means, but the…
Album | Richard Walters – Regret Less
Richard Walters returns with the fantastic Regret Less. Having already become a feature on American prime-time shows like Grey’s Anatomy, released brilliantly received albums and wowed many an audience with his music, it is surprising but welcome that the Oxford-based…
Live | Gabby Young and Other Animals @ Bush Hall, 15th November 2012
Bounding onto the ornate stage like some extra feature from a Baz Lurhmann DVD, Gabby Young and Other Animals grabbed this Bush Hall audience by its collective furry lapels and made them spill Red Stripe all over each other. Launching…
Interview | After 40 years, Ray Stinnett’s fire burns bright
“I MAY HAVE been a little headstrong.” Ray Stinnett can afford a little chuckle when reflecting on why it took 41 years for his album A Fire Somewhere to see the light of day. Putting out any record can be…
Interview | Introducing…Al Lewis
With first full-length English-language album, In The Wake, Welsh artist Al Lewis was nominated for the inaugural Welsh Music prize. Having set the bar so high for himself, he decamped to Nashville, Tennessee, to the studio of Charlie Peacock (The Civil Wars,…