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…
I had a sneaking suspicion that the evening, set in the basement of a secluded private members club in Shoreditch, The Kings Head, was going to be a showcase of great music, for two reasons. Firstly, curated by Mahogany,…
Karl Blau sets out his stall wonderfully on the opening track of his latest record. He has recorded around 40 albums over an indie-rock career spanning around 20 years and has now re-designed himself as a country crooner. That it…
3 years on from the heavenly Nepenthe comes another instalment in what is becoming a familiar expedition to spectacular terrains. Will is a vehicle for voice, strings, and consuming electronic flourishes that combined take a hold of the listener. Barwick…
Whether he’s electrifying his sound and revolutionizing rock and roll, taking things back down an acoustic notch or two to embrace his folk roots, or releasing a Christmas album to notoriously mixed reception, Bob Dylan has remained an unlikely trailblazer…