by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #592 Haley Bonar – I Can Change
Haley Bonar will return in August with her sophomore record Impossible Dream, the follow-up to 2014’s The Last War. This week she’s unveiled lead single ‘I Can Change’, a breezy number which on the surface sounds ideal for spring, although…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #590 Mutual Benefit – The Hereafter
Mutual Benefit (AKA Jordan Lee) will release new album Skip A Sinking Stone later this month and has today unveiled the album’s closing track ‘The Hereafter’. The new album is in large part a reflection on the success of debut…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on #588 Crosby, Stills & Nash – Guinevere
Sadly, it seems Crosby, Stills & Nash (and occasionally Young) are now definitively over in any form. First there was Young’s feud with Crosby over comments the former Byrd made about his girlfriend Daryl Hannah, and then Graham Nash took…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Jasmine Rodgers – Icicles
As the daughter of a Japanese poet and Free/Bad Company/Queen vocalist Paul Rodgers, it’s no surprise that music pours out of Jasmine Rodgers. She spent the early 2000s performing and recording with Boa after joining her brother’s band, and has…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Record Store Day | A Night And A Day @ Music’s Not Dead, Bexhill
“What time did you get here?” It’s clear my presence in the Record Store Day queue outside Music’s Not Dead in Bexhill has upset the natural order of things, though I’m not alone in that. The question is actually being…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Record Store Day | Shopping Guide K-Z
In case you hadn’t gathered, Saturday is Record Store Day. The A-J section of our pick of the 500+ special releases is here, and now for the rest of the alphabet. All those caveats about the prices being a guide…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Record Store Day | Shopping Guide A-J
Have you done your homework ahead of Record Store Day? With more than 500 releases on their way this Saturday there is a mass of stuff to get your teeth into, but if you’re running out of time before heading…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Playlist | Matthew & The Atlas pick their favourite artists
Matthew & the Atlas are ready to return with their fine new record Temple, which is due out on April 22 via Communion. Written in his home studio in Farnborough but recorded in East Nashville with electronic folk duo Foreign…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Session premiere | Sam Jordan & The Dead Boys – Sister
The first thing that strikes you is Sam Jordan’s incredible voice. We could waste time comparing his rich baritone with some other outstanding crooners, but we’re wagering that if we wait a little while he’ll become a reference point himself.…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Long Tall Jefferson – Pharaoh
Long Tall Jefferson has taken a long road to delivering his debut album. Described as a ‘wanderer by trade’, he’s collected the songs which make up I Want My Honey Back during travels which have seen him living in Berlin,…