The uber-talented Darren Hayman has set himself the goal of writing, recording and releasing a song a day this month. Each song is released as a free download, available for only a couple of days. You can get them from…
Interview: Ruarri Joseph
After the release of two indie-folk albums, Tales of Grim and Grit through Atlantic Records and Both Sides of the Coin through his own independent record label Pip Productions, Cornish singer-songwriter Ruarri Joseph disappeared from the music circuit. Before heading…
Album: Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards – Shakes
It creaks open like an old wooden door in a Elizabethan house, does Dan Michaelson’s voice. The centrepiece of any album Michaelson features on, be it with the Coastguards or the slightly more established Absentee, it’s a voice that is…
Singles: Laura Marling & Johnny Flynn, The Vaccines, Sea of Bees
The Vaccines – Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra) ‘Wreckin Bar (Ra Ra Ra)’ by The Vaccines is one minute and twenty- four seconds of infectious guitar music, with touches of retro, surf, the 70s, lo- fi and something new. Justin…
Live: Dirty Projectors @ Koko, 07/12/2010
Listening to the Dirty Projectors is a bit like being inside an oddly syncopated clockwork toy; so much so that as I refresh my memory of this gig, my sister asks why I have two songs playing at once (it’s…
Live: Yann Tiersen @ Exeter Phoenix Theatre, 10/11/2010
Yann Tiersen and his band don’t like to make a huge entrance. They shuffle onstage in checked shirts, jeans and Converse, each not quite waving, but motioning, to the audience: completely unaffected by the roaring applause they elicit. Their casualness…