Alien Angel Super Death—if that isn’t a metal album title, then what is it? Perhaps with a swig of whiskey one can successfully label it folk right on the first go. Wherein Swiss artist Verena von Horsten’s latest record fails…
Have you ever felt the outstanding need to claw your way out of your own self-made conformity and aspire to develop something totally new, yet, in part, old as it was crafted out of your pure ingenious reflection on the…
Whether we’re talking the incredible multi-instrumental and production capabilities of a Paul McCartney or Patrick Stump in-studio, live-loopers like Ed Sheeran and Keller Williams, or those who really do take on multiple roles at once this side of Joe Hill…
One great thing that has come out of folk music in the modern age is that it’s become more of an attitude. We live in a world where, arguably, an artist like RiverChild is just as “folk” as, say Angel…
For Jon Ouin, one of his favourite things about being a member of Stornoway has been going out on tour. The Oxford band have been gigging since long before some of them were, strictly speaking, old enough to be in…
“We’re going to play you a song off the new record now,” Angie announces. “Actually, they’re all off the new record but it sounds cool to say that.” Those of us crammed into the Basement on the banks of the…