A year on from the success of the Iron Horse album written about cycling, Mary Erskine has kept the Me For Queen name but gone solo for her new EP, Who I Am and What I Am For, due out…
Video Premiere | Me For Queen – Slow Train
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Exclusive | Munro Fox – William (I Feel Ordinary) (Acoustic Version)
Munro Fox are a collaboration between experimentalist Adam Stark, ex-Goldheart Assembly man John Herbert and academic Tom Barton. Last month they put out their debut album Last Chance Radio, a tender, delicate record to warm the heart as the nights…
Premiere | The Wave Pictures – Pool Hall
Dave Tattersall has weird dreams. We know this because the Wave Pictures have a new album on the way, and apparently Bamboo Diner In The Rain is set “in the Bamboo Diner of my dreams, with rain beating on the…
Interview | ‘Let the backlash begin’ – The Drive-By Truckers tackle a divided America
“I just got back from the gym,” Mike Cooley says with a laugh as he answers his phone. “I’m trying to get in shape because when we go out and do this, we might have to run if they try…
Listen | Exclusive stream of Jinnwoo’s debut album Strangers Bring Me No Light
Ever since Jinnwoo released his debut EP back in 2014 this moment has been keenly anticipated. Friday will see the release of his debut album Strangers Bring Me No Light – a project years in the making thanks to the…
#650 Lefty Frizzell – Always Late
We’ve been a tad tardy in getting a Song of the Day posted in the last week or so. We’re sorry about that. We’ll try to do better. Otherwise we’ll make Lefty a little more upset.
#648 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes – Wake Up The Sun
Edward Sharpe, the Magnetic Zeroes, and director Noaz Deshe chose Moldova to make the remarkable new video for ‘Wake Up The Sun’, taken from the band’s latest album PersonA. “You find time stands still [in Moldova],” Deshe told Nowness. “Communism…
Artist Playlist | Hurray For The Riff Raff
Hurray for the Riff Raff are on tour in the UK this week, showing off tracks from the acclaimed Small Town Heroes and offering tantalising glimpses of the new record they’ve just begun work on. Alynda Segarra has a well-earned…
Video Premiere | Ralegh Long – Morning (We Are In The Fields)
The fields around where Ralegh Long lives are known locally as ‘Webster’s Gold’ after the man who made his fortune growing wheat for biscuits which were shipped to soldiers fighting in the Crimea. It is in these fields where Ralegh…
#646 Neil Young – Ohio (Live)
A friend sent me this link today, just as a treat, because he knows it’s my favourite song ever. How can I not share?