I remember seeing Paul Thomas Saunders a couple of years ago in his native Leeds. He was doing the whole emotive-bloke-with-a-guitar routine and, truth be told, he was doing it pretty well. It was with that expectation that I set…
News | Jeffrey Lewis collaborates with The Sussex Wit and Wave Pics for new album
Jeffrey Lewis has announced the release of his new album ‘A Turn in the Dream-Songs’ on 10th October. Jeff recorded the follow up to 2009’s ‘Em Are I’ in Manchester, and invited friends including Johnny Flynn, Au Revoir Simone, The…
Album | Dennis Hopper Choppers – Be Ready
What an inspired place Tabernas, southern Spain was for writing such a broodingly atmospheric album. Ben Nicholls headed for the land where Sergio Leone shot ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ to pen the songs that would become Be…
Album | Dead Trees – Whatwave
Languid garage rock is the American subgenre that refuses to die. It has endured, barely evolving, since being invented back in the 60s by the Velvet Underground, or maybe the Seeds. Its popularity waxes and wanes, sometimes breaking into the…
News | Peggy Sue, Sea of Bees to play free London show on Sunday
Bandstand Busking have put together another stonking line-up for a free show at the Northampton Square bandstand in London this Sunday. Peggy Sue, Sea of Bees and Veronica Falls will play the show, which starts at 2pm. There are more…
Album | William Elliott Whitmore – Field Songs
‘Rootsy’ is a term that gets used a lot in describing that certain kind of Americana that draws heavily on rural country blues, evoking cotton fields and dustbowls. But if it’s actually possible to hear earth, soil, you can hear…