Christmas is over and the New Year’s Eve hangovers are receding, but that doesn’t mean an end to winter is coming any time soon. ‘Home’, the new track from Fiona Bevan co-written and performed with Adam Glover, is perfect winter…
With a new single out in January and a debut album on the horizon, we thought it was about time we caught up with Paul Thomas Saunders. Once very much a fixture of the Leeds scene, Saunders has moved to…
We love it when one of our favourites gets some well-deserved mainstream attention, so we were chuffed when Nick Mulvey was named among the acts in the BBC’s Sound of 2014 poll. And he will continue that momentum with a…
Simone Felice has unveiled a new single with an album to follow in the spring. ‘Molly-O!’ is taken from the upcoming release Strangers, which is due for release on March 24. Featuring the vocals of Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites…
When it comes to Christmas folk music, this is about as Christmassy and as folky as it gets. Jon Boden explains: “‘Christmas Bells’ is based on the mummers play ‘Christmas: his Pageant Play, or Mysterie of St George’ written down by a…
Bradford folkies The Halstead Clan have produced this rather lovely Christmas song to raise money for a local boy, Cannor Lancaster. Connor was left physically affected by a bout of meningitis at just two weeks old, and has since been…
Criminally, Fountains of Wayne have only troubled the UK top 40 three times. One of those was back in 1997 with their festive single ‘I Want An Alien For Christmas’. While that was memorable for its sheer silliness, the real…
Rachel Sermanni’s debut album Under Mountains was one of our favourites of 2012, so it’s no small thing to say her new song, ‘Everything Changes’, may be her best yet. Though only 22, Sermanni has been touring for five years…
Singer-songwriter Paul Thomas Saunders has unveiled a new song ‘Good Women’ from his upcoming debut album. ‘Good Women’ will be released on January 13 with an album, Beautiful Desolation, to follow in the spring. Recorded in his former home town…
Rachel Sermanni, one of favourite artists of 2012, is to release a new EP in January. The 22-year-old will unleash Everything Changes on January 27, with two headline shows – her biggest to date – scheduled in Glasgow and London to…