The last Richmond Fontaine concert I went to a decade ago saw their set sabotaged by stage monitors blowing, leaving the band battling in vain to hear their own instruments. I’d not really given them a second thought since but…
Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell met in college, played together in various bands, and eventually decided to write and record songs together. The result was the folk duo Overcoats, one of the buzziest acts at this past South by Southwest Music Festival…
Danny Green’s songwriter project, Laish, are performing a rare seven-piece band launch show at London’s excellent Sebright Arms on 21st April to celebrate the release of an EP we described as “13 minutes of perfection“. Support comes from the honey-voiced…
This week saw a couple of gems from the Emerald Isle host an intimate show at the O2 Academy in Islington. Both have enjoyed fame through the exposure of YouTube, to varying degrees. Bry (formerly BriBry, and known to his…
The Electric Factory is a far cry from the clean and cool converted train station venue, Union Transfer, where Andrew Bird last played in Philadelphia supporting 2012’s Break It Yourself. The Electric Factory is quintessential Philadelphia, from the Ben Franklin logo to…
Somewhere in the netherworld between folk, rock and jazz, Ben Watt’s Fever Dream paints pictures using more oils than watercolors. Watt’s resulting images have a sharp focus, while catering less to current trends than some of his work with Everything…
T R O U B L E, the latest bedroom-folk-rock release from long-standing Canadian folk icon, Woodpigeon, sounds as worldly and experienced as its creator Mark Andrew Hamilton. With aural references to Scotland and South America and the Middle East,…
This week on tour, lots of great things happened. In fact, the whole thing has improved by about 100%… First, I was joined by more members of our band. Lynn Roberts showed up to sing some harmonies, and Amy Smith…
Everything You’ve Come To Expect is far more experimental than anything we’ve seen from Turner or Kane separately or together, bordering on some Baroque pop concept album in the style of a punk rock David Bowie. At times, it feels…
Since 1999, Explosions in the Sky have refined a formula without sounding formulaic. Now, after five years working on three soundtracks, they return with an LP that sounds remarkably like….Explosions in the Sky! The band trades on the ecstatic moment…