Nestled in an oft-forgotten corner of Kings Cross, St Pancras Old Church houses some of the more intimate and spellbinding concerts of London’s independent acoustic scene, and tonight’s show was no exception. The evening, marking the launch of ‘Burial’, the…
Roisin Murphy is the kind artist record companies hate. She doesn’t follow traditional paths, instead working at her own speed and following her own agenda. The seven year gap between her second and third CDs is proof of that. Stemming…
Hot on the heels of Lucinda’s early 2016 tour for recent double album (yes, another) The Ghosts of Highway 20 comes this pared-down version of the songs, performed at the Apostel Paulus Kirche in Berlin with half the band missing,…
Much is made of Hurray For The Riff Raff frontwoman Alyssa Lee Segarra’s unusual coming of age story. Leaving her Bronx home at 17, she freight-hopped her way to California and travelled around the USA playing music for several years…
The fertile Hudson River Valley in upstate New York is home to Woodstock, the Saugerties, and Columbia County where The Felice Brothers recorded Life In The Dark on their family farm. Using a do-it-yourself ethic they created a studio in…
In some ways, it’s hard to come up with superlatives to describe Laura Marling. She’s clearly a virtuosa… adept at playing the guitar, with an agile and capable voice that she controls well. Her lyrics are intelligent and versatile, flicking…
yMusic line up guard-of-honour style, awaiting the arrival of the man everyone is here to see. The classical chamber music sextet are the latest addition to the menagerie of Ben Folds’ collaborators. This Folds chap doesn’t like to play it…
It’s a rare musician these days that travels from Boston to the Delta and finds himself entranced by the jukebox joints of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Even rarer to then travel up to Chicago and become music minister at the south side…
A combination of ‘60s girl group tropes, sweet melodies, and gorgeous lyrics about the female condition fuel this triumphant self-titled debut from the collaboration of Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs. Tunes are sighed out, telling tales of seduction,…
