1. Prolific cult band Guided by Voices have announced they are to tour in the US in October and November. Having been enthralled by Roddy Woomble’s stories of GBV’s live show when we interviewed him last year, I’m desperate to…
Festival: Secret Garden Party 2010 – Fact or Fiction
After a journey to secretdom (somewhere between Cambridge and Norwich), the garden unfurls itself all centred around a huge flying machine anchored in a giant lake. This years theme was ‘Fact or Fiction’ and no effort was spared with the…
Brian’s Mixtape #40: New York, New York
Brian’s recently gotten to thinking about how much of the music he loves is about the cities, suburbs and plains of the U S of A. He was going to do you a playlist about the whole darn country, but…
Laura Marling speaks out about tough India gigs
Twice Mercury-nominated folk star Laura Marling has spoken out about the difficult gigs she played in India on tour with Mumford & Sons. On a mini documentary Goodbye India, now playing on her website, the 20-year-old says: “India was totally…
EP: Rachael Dadd – Elephee
Rachael Dadd’s new EP Elephee sounds delicate and raw, precise and spontaneous. It’s a beautiful collection of songs that could have been recorded just a few hours ago or sometime in the early 1970s. Imagine finding a vinyl record in…
Album: Caitlin Rose – Own Side Now
Speaking as a sincere and devoted life-long Dolly Parton fan, I can’t really begin to explain how wonderful it is that Caitlin Rose even exists – she’s a young, fresh, twenty-something who knows her way around country music backwards and…