“Women prefer a menagerie of clowns,” sings Adam Green, at Bristol’s Thekla, a floating boat of a venue in Bristol’s East Mud Dock. Judging by the reaction of the women and, indeed, men in the crowd, he’s spot on. Green…
There is DIY, and then there is Traverse City, Michigan-based folk band The Accidentals. The youthful trio, founded by Katie Larson and Savannah Buist while still in high school, practically does it all when it comes to its music. Beside…
I had a sneaking suspicion that the evening, set in the basement of a secluded private members club in Shoreditch, The Kings Head, was going to be a showcase of great music, for two reasons. Firstly, curated by Mahogany,…
Sarah Howells goes by a few names, but the one she is currently making use of is “Bryde”. Best known as half of pop/folk duo Paper Aeroplanes, Howells is taking a break from the band which regularly populated BBC Radio…
There is no getting around it. Laura Gibson’s voice is quiet. On stage, protected by the hushed anticipation of a near-silent crowd, that is much of what gives Gibson her power as a performer. That and her knack for a…
There’s something wonderfully off kilter about Jenny Gillespie’s latest CD, Cure For Dreaming. Rather than being a cure it seems designed to send one’s imagination fluttering off in any number of different directions. Songs morph and meld in much the…
It’s impossible to listen to Thomas Cohen’s Bloom Forever with out mentioning the death of his wife, Peaches Geldof. The album, nine songs written between 2012 and 2015 are presented in chronological order with Geldof’s heroin overdose in 2014 being…
St. Pancras Old Church, intimate and grand at the same time, is the perfect setting for Laetitia Sadier and her stripped-down, warm but otherworldly performance. Stereolab’s singer and chief lyricist has been going it alone with several solo albums in…
Travis might be a one trick pony- the trick being catchy, jangly, perfect-as-a-backdrop-to-a-memory songs lasting no longer than three minutes and thirty seconds- but it’s a good trick. Sometimes, it’s nice to know what you can expect. Everything At Once…
The last place you’d expect to find an Australian band that combines folk, rock, heavy-metal, and prog, recording would be Daptone Studios in Brooklyn, but that’s where King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard recorded their first release of 2016, Nonagon…