Robert Pollard’s Guided By Voices have announced a new double A-side single, ‘The Unsinkable Fats Domino’/’We Won’t Apologise’. It will be released on Matador on November 21st. It will be followed by an album, Let’s Go Eat the Factory, which…
Live | Alela Diane @ St Panras Old Church, 06/10/11
Seated on high-backed wooden chairs like the kings and queens of Narnia in Cair Paravel, Alela Diane and her Wild Divine hold court from the dais at St Pancras Old Church. Flanked by her husband and her father (both called…
Live | The Leisure Society (Laura Marling support) @ Winchester Cathedral
‘This place seems nice…’ quips Leisure Society co-frontman Christian Hardy, surveying the audience settling into Winchester Cathedral’s 160m Gothic nave. Before Nick Hemming’s guitar ripples reassuringly into ‘We Were Wasted’, from the band’s debut album The Sleeper. It’s a skeleton…
News | Jeffrey Lewis on UK tour next week
After the release of this album “A Turn In the Dream-Songs” on Rough Trade a couple of weeks ago. New York pro-folk legend Jeffrey Lewis is heading out on tour across the UK. The album was recorded in the UK…
Live | Gruff Rhys & Y Niwl @ Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Amongst the potted palms of the mobile lobby of Gruff Rhys’s Hotel Shampoo, support band Y Niwl emit wave after wave of their own brand of crystalline surf rock. The Peter Gunn-esque ‘Pedwar’ opens the show, followed by the standout Chwech,…
EP | Sarah Blasko – Cinema Songs
If you’re looking for new material from Sarah Blasko, Cinema Songs is not going to help you out. There’s nothing new here at all. Not only are the five tracks all covers – but they were already released, at least…