by Duncan Martin • • Comments Off on Artist Playlist | Vanessa Anne Redd
Vannessa Anne Redd’s debut album Behind The Wall, 10 songs of “Grunge Folk” written in the French countryside, was recently released. Vanessa has put together a playlist for us, explaining some of the influences for the record. You can catch…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Jessie Abbey – Vaudeville Baby
A lot of you will know Musical Charis, the Sacramento group who have graced these pages multiple times with their whimsical records packed full of ideas. The band’s lead vocalist and keyboard player Jessie Abbey is now poised to deliver…
by Duncan Martin • • Comments Off on Session | Gitta de Ridder
After a musical journey that includes studying at a Dutch music academy and performing in several bands, singer/songwriter Gitta de Ridder released her first solo EP Come and Find Me last year. The EP gained support across her native Netherlands,…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Gallery 47 – Mother’s Plan
Gallery 47 is the name given to Jack Peachey’s revolving assembly of Nottingham musicians, due to release their third album in November. Clean is the follow-up to 2014’s All Will Be Well, a record which helped earn Peachey a support…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video premiere | Saint Leonard’s Horses – The Strangelove Hotel Suite
An album recorded in the former home of Stanley Kubrick really ought to have some cinematic quality to it, and there’s something in the power and drama of Saint Leonard’s Horses’ debut Good Luck Everybody – released this very day…
by Duncan Martin • • Comments Off on Session | Ralegh Long
Ralegh Long is a singer-songwriter who creates subtle, pastoral soundscapes inspired by nature and mystacism. His work has been praised as “Demented beauty” by The Guardian and “Really, really beautiful” by Lauren Laverne. Ralegh came into the studio and performed…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Rocky Bottom – American Man
When it comes to folksters with unique stories, Alex Hernandez—the voice behind musical moniker Rocky Bottom—encapsulates something as weird and wonderful as some have caught on to expect from the scene’s trademark wanderers. A move to Nashville from New Jersey…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Me For Queen – Slow Train
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…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on 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…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on 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…