Next month on March 9th sees the return of The Woodbine & Ivy Band with Sleep On Sleeping On. Listen to the premiere of Arm a Nation, our Song of the Day.
James McMurtry’s latest offering ‘Complicated Game’ is unflinching in its storytelling, delivered with unembellished honesty and deep empathy, it may well prove one of the finest Americana albums of the year.
William Elliott Whitmore returns in March with a new album. Radium Death marks a sonic change as he plays electric guitar and goes for a fuller sound. Listen to Healing To Do.
Our Song of the Day is from Karen Dalton, a live version of her singing Red are the Flowers. It was recorded at a coffee house called The Attic in Boulder, Colorado in 1962.
We have a Song premiere today from Rathbone, a name that has been winning fans from Zane Lowe to Devendra Banhart. Listen to ‘Little Moment’ from his latest album ‘Soft’.
A one room, one microphone recording with no overdubs by John Parish, the music on Tom Brosseau’s Perfect Abandon is redolent of dust bowl ballads or early Sun sides…stripped of embellishment to reinforce the songs.
Out of the circuit for almost a decade, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman have hit a rich vein of form since their return and Tomorrow Will Follow Today finds the duo at their best.
The atmosphere on the latest release from The Phantom Band is darker and moodier than their previous offering, evoking a twilit landscape haunted by isolation.
The Tallest Man on Earth provides a further glimpse into his new album with the first single ‘Sagres’. Dark Bird is Home is released on May 12th via Dead Oceans.
Old Crow Medicine Show get a little time off for good behaviour in their latest video for Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer as they plan a prison break…
I’ve seen some powerful videos in my time but the recent video for alt-J’s ‘Pusher’ left me speechless – “I wanted this film to be very humanist and as deep and simple as it could be.”
Last October Peter Broderick invited anyone and everyone to submit a remix of his song Colours Of The Night. Among the many re-mixes that came in was this darkly playful dub mix by E3
