UK-born New Yorker Sofia grew up in an artistic hothouse of a home, daughter to a Venezualan jewellery-designer mother and a Lebanese songwriter father. Her own songwriting kicked off when she was 13. ‘Mum, I Think I Like a Girl’…
‘How Are You Just a Dream’ flings the doors open on …And the Nothing setting a shouty, pissed-off tone that’s not what long-term fans of Hinson will be expecting. You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d put the wrong CD in…
‘Mistakes of my Youth’ is a retrospective of the self-defeating choices and actions of Mark Oliver Everett, one of the best people ever in the history of people who can both play guitar and sing songs. With misty, laid-back guitars…
‘Syd Barrett with a harp’ isn’t quite how the majority of Serafina Steer fans describe her to friends, but that’s how this idiosyncratic, talented musician chooses to sell herself at a pre-show panel discussion about women in music. Speaking alongside…
Happy International Women’s Day! If you’re not sure how to celebrate, just be pleased about how fantastically witty, current and alive feminism is in 2014, and watch the shiftiest-looking escaped tiger you’re ever likely to see prowl around a circus…
Did you know Iceland sits across both the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates? It does. Consider that your Geography lesson for the day. Sóley is from this exciting land of hot lagoons, magic mud and confused tectonic allegiances. Part…
With a tambourine tied to one foot and a kick-drum attached to the other, Theo Bard has a touch of the one-man-bands about him in the new video for rhythmic, relentless, moving-on song ‘Never Alone’. A taster of things to…
There’s nothing quite like the roar and crackle of an open iPhone at Christmas, a fact of which M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel are very well aware. The pair continue to punch out the albums with flare and pizzazz, a…
A ray of winter sunshine pierces the grimy clouds today as we joyously announce a new Francois & the Atlas Mountains tour for 2014. Creators of sunshine-infused pop that’s both intelligent and out-and-out catchy, the Paris-based quartet have had our…
Last night, we turned five. IMAGINE. We’ve not been to many fifth birthday parties (at least, not since primary school) but we can be sure that they’re not really supposed to have quite as much gin on offer (or cake,…