Empowerment is the theme of Yvonne McDonnell’s upcoming EP Not Her Own, something which is certainly evident on opening track ‘I’m Not This Layer of Skin’ – a song inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’. McDonnell’s…
The hazy, laid-back ‘If You Could See Me Now’ is taken from In A New State, the third album from Australian songwriter Emma Russack which is due out next month. Russack first made waves in her homeland at the age…
Neil Young began his UK and Ireland tour on Sunday night in Glasgow, and given Laura Marling is supporting him throughout we figured this was a fitting one for today. Marling has said she learned guitar strumming along to this…
Perennial shape-shifters of Montreal will return with their 14th full-length album Innocence Reaches on August 12, and have offered up first taste ‘It’s Different For Girls’. This synthy pop number seems perfect for the sunny day outside our window, so…
To me, the vast majority of what passes for country music today – certainly on the big radio and TV networks in the US – is nothing of the sort, just pop music in cowboy hats. The true legacy of…
‘Kaleidoscope’ is taken from Moon Saloon, the new album which has just been announced by Arc Iris, due for release via Bella Union on August 19. The Providence three-piece have promised a darker edge to the follow-up to their 2014…
‘Wasting Time’ is the latest single from Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats’ self-titled debut album, released in time to tee up a series of festival appearances in the UK this summer. The band will be playing at Glastonbury (June…
Mairearad Green will be heading out on a UK tour at the end of the month following the release of her acclaimed debut album The Summer Isles earlier this year. Mairearad will be backed by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Hector MacInnes,…
Jonathan Wilson will be heading to London at the start of next week for a one-off solo performance at Union Chapel – the last date of a short European tour which is due to be his only outing on this…
Forgive us a slightly soppy one but it’s the 50th wedding anniversary of Dolly Parton and Carl Dean today, so what could be more fitting than this? Dolly wrote the song in 1973, actually as a farewell to Porter Wagoner…