With The Staves continuing to rock our world and Lily & Madeleine about to release their debut album, times have never been better for fans of singing sisters. So we were delighted to stumble across New Jersey’s Natalia and Andrea…
We were big fans of Laura J Martin’s debut album The Hangman Tree, which came out at the start of last year, so we couldn’t be happier to bring you new material from our favourite north-west flautist. Smart and fun,…
With Country Mile out this week, it seemed only right we bring you ‘The Lady Is Risen’, one of the album’s undoubted high points, as our Song of the Day. At first listen it seems like a meandering, shambling thing,…
Lindi Ortega may sound like she’s straight out of Nashville, Tennessee but she is fact straight out of Toronto, Canada. Thankfully she’s moved to Nashville now to make things easier for all concerned. This slice of sulty country, ‘Tin Star’,…
We’ve been banging on about Lily & Madeleine for months now, so we thought, with their self-titled debut album due out next month, it was time we heard from the Jurkiewicz sisters themselves. Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to…
It’s one of the oldest cliches going that unhappy people make beautiful art, so perhaps we should be grateful for the fractious nature of Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck’s relationship. Such was the breakdown between the pair that Elephant threatened to…
The Guardian described Wampire as: “Creepy, but in a good way.” Sometimes, you just have to defer to the masters and accept you aren’t going to do any better than that. Wampire are Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps, two men…
In their latest beautiful country-tinged single ‘Emily’, Cocos Lovers tackle the big stuff: y’know, love and loss, that sort of thing. Says guitarist and vocalist Will Greenham: “Emily is about a profound sadness for the people we love and leave behind…
If you thought Leona Lewis singing the Snow Patrol track was the definitive song called ‘Run’, then think again. Listen to this. That’s not to say Rhodes’ track doesn’t share certain things in common with its illustrious namesake – there’s…
It’s no secret that we think Worry Dolls are pretty special, so we’re delighted that Feldspar agree with us. The London-based five-piece have produced a series of videos filmed in empty venues, called, well, ‘Songs From Empty Venues’. In the…