Communion Records (home to Michael Kiwanuka, Ben Howard and Nathaniel Rateliff) have announced the signing of Gabriel & The Hounds, a Brooklyn-dased band. Their debut album: A Kiss Full of Teeth, is set to be released on 5th March 2012.…
When Jim Moray’s last album came out in 2010, I featured it in the new release section of a folk music show I then hosted on student radio. Lively, complex and with all sorts of ideas and stylings from popular…
The Leisure Society announced this week that Dan Michaelson will support them on their forthcoming UK tour. The tour, which begins this month, will see the band play eight dates in the UK and Ireland. Wednesday 15th February @ Norwich,…
Michael Kiwanuka stands on the precipice in 2012. The two EPs with which he introduced himself last year, Tell Me A Tale and I’m Getting Ready earned an avalanche of praise, including plenty here, and deservedly so, for few songs…
Hands up, who amongst us can name a South African band making waves in the indie scene? You? Me? No, didn’t think so. It might feel awfully lonely standing in a crowd of one, where the association of yourself with…
Ani DiFranco has been through enough re-inventions and reincarnations over the last two decades to give David Bowie a run for his money.From her debut as a wide-eyed, shaven-headed 20-year-old, through the tortured, angsty mid-90s and into a more mellow…