You are cordially invited to a very special For Folk’s Sake show at The Gallery Cafe in East London this Wednesday 25 July. The wonderful Bard will be playing. You can listen to their beautiful album The Springtime Fool below.…
Exclusive | Stream Luke Ritchie’s new album The Water’s Edge
Luke Ritchie’s debut album The Water’s Edge has no ordinary back story. Back in 2010, the songwriter challenged himself to write one song a week for six months, post the results online, and see what happened. After getting a huge…
Album | Family Band – Grace & Lies
In their sophomore record, Grace & Lies, Family Band juxtapose two fundamentally opposing and paradoxical concepts, and intertwine them to form a being that thrums with life’s most profound questions. The album begins with the unsettlingly with ‘Night Song’, centred…
Singles Round-up | Dog Is Dead, Alberta Cross, Alexander Wolfe, Tashaki Miyaki, James Canty & Church School
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…