In case anyone hasn’t noticed, Christmas is on its way. If you’ve not started yet, you might want to give some passing thought to your Christmas shopping before you realise its Christmas Eve and the only place still open is…
Kinbom & Kessner – a collaboration between Swedish lap steel guitarist and songwriter Fredrik Kinbom (Sarah Blasko, Gemma Ray, Gurrumul) and German theatre writer/dramaturgist Sonja Kessner – release their debut album Lieder von Liebe und Krieg (which translates as Songs…
Marry Waterson is aiming to sing us all into her tune with her latest, Two Wolves, featuring collaborations with Big Eyes guitarist and composer David A. Jaycock. This isn’t Waterson’s first co-operation with a fellow singer-songwriter across a full album’s…
Darren Hayman decamped to (you guessed it) Florence to record this charming collection which, surprisingly for such a prolific writer, is his first strictly solo album, finding him home alone in his hosts’ Firenze flat. Opener ‘Nuns Run The Apothecary’…
You can’t blame Emilie Kahn for becoming tired with the barrage of articles constantly comparing her to one certain Californian folk artist; she’s one of arguably two acts in the entire modern industry that are centered around an instrument so…
When it comes to versatility, it’s hard to beat out a tried and true, dedicated career artist like Neko Case. Wherein her 1997 debut release, The Virginian, would indicate that she was another strong inclusion to the blooming alt-country showcase…