Dog is Dead – Glockenspiel Song When I was first this track I did a double take; wasn’t this quirky, upbeat pop number from Nottingham was released two years ago? It turns out I was right – after releasing ‘Glockenspiel…
Interview | Plans and pork pies with Alberta Cross
Alberta Cross are a band who have certainly earned their place on the main stages. Touring extensively with artists such as Oasis, Them Crooked Vultures and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Petter Ericson Stakee and Terry Wolfers are about to follow…
EP | Bonnie Prince Billy – Now Here’s My Plan
I sometimes wonder what it would be like if modern songs were given the kind of interpretative renditions born by traditional music – if more cover versions consciously shaped meaning, like Bellowhead, rather than merely adapting style, like the Mystery…
EP | WAGWAK – The Way To Drive Into The Arabian Sunset
Made up of singer-guitarist Daehyun Kim and madcap multi-instrumentalist Sangyoung Cho, WAGWAK’s curious moniker is an acronym of We Aren’t Gay, We Are Korean, after they were repeatedly mistaken for a couple. Self-professed disciples of FFS favourites Slow Club, Mumford…
Album | Vanessa Peters – The Burn, The Truth, The Lies
It is hard to believe that Vanessa Peters is on album number seven, and after the much-acclaimed Christmas album released last year, many have been waiting on tenterhooks to see what Peters has got up her sleeve next. Well, rest-assured,…
News | Mumford & Sons announce details of second album
Mumford & Sons have just released the official details for their second album: something that is to be one of the most hotly anticipated records this year. Titled ‘Babel‘, the album will be released via Gentlemen of the Road/Island Records,…