It is hard to believe, but it has been three years since Mutual Benefit entered the wider public consciousness with the rather splendid Love’s Crushing Diamond. Before this, Jordan Lee, the architect of Mutual Benefit, had released 5 records in…
Beth Orton doesn’t release records very often, so you have the feeling that when she does it isn’t a mechanical process, she has something to say and perhaps even a new sound, determined by who she has been working with.…
Charlie Law – My Black Dog Charlie Law’s latest track is a mixture of darkness and light, finding a solution to problems and leaving them behind. The joyous confidence with which his voice flies through the air and soars in…
I can’t remember who first put me on to Sarah MacDougall (I know it was quite a while after the release of her wonderful second album The Greatest Ones Alive about five years ago), but I owe them thanks, especially…
I have been listening to Jim James’ take on the Grateful Dead’s “Candyman” for the last three weeks straight. I can’t get over his version of this song. To be honest, I can’t get over this album. It’s important to…
Frankie Cosmos deserve so more than a Monday evening London audience. Which is not to say that the crowd isn’t fully on board with Greta Kline’s awesome indie-pop. We are. We sway and we nod. We grin and clap and whoop…
I think you could be forgiven if you haven’t heard of Frances. She first hit my radar when she made the longlist of the BBC’s “Sound of 2016” in December, and despite ultimately not featuring in the top five, has…
Consisting of Kate Pillsbury, Emilee Petersmark, Ben Zito, and Dan Rickabus, Grand Rapids’ Crane Wives have quickly ascended to the top of their scene’s radar since their 2010 inception. They, alongside bands like The Ragbirds and The Accidentals, have become…
Hailing from Ann Arbor, MI, The Ragbirds are a band that have transcended the typical avenues of traditional roots music to develop something totally new from the ground up. The most exciting part of their music as a whole might…
“Women prefer a menagerie of clowns,” sings Adam Green, at Bristol’s Thekla, a floating boat of a venue in Bristol’s East Mud Dock. Judging by the reaction of the women and, indeed, men in the crowd, he’s spot on. Green…