Our Song of the Day is from Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams with Water. They arrive in the UK next month for a series of tour dates as well as Ireland and Europe.
Adrian Roye And The Exiles were invited by Michael Chorney to Vermont to record and the wonderful Reclaimed results. Laced with sweet melody, it’s a blissful musical breeze in the sultry summer.
With their second album available now, Dave Derby gives FRUK an exclusive insight into his musical history and some of the things that feed into and inspire Gramercy Arms.
Watch the Allah-Las new video for No Werewolf, sand and surf get a new interpretation via a cover of The Frantics 1960 garage classic & sculptor artist Mikhail Sadovnikov…has to be seen!
Listen to the track première from Icelandic singer songwriter Hek. ‘Don’t Worry’ is from his third album ‘Please Tease Me’ due for release on August 12, 2014.
Paul heads to London’s Bush Hall to catch Kentucky native Sturgill Simpson. Backed by Daniel Meade and Lloyd Reid he re-stakes the claim ‘saviour of Country music’.
Undimmed by age, which naturally enough he has in his withering gaze, I Haven’t Got The Blues (Yet) finds Loudon in tip-top form as he documents the injustices and irritations of life and love.
Watch the new video from Icelandic singer songwriter Hafdis Huld for ‘Wolf’, taken from her album Home which was an Album of the Month on Folk Radio UK.
Our Song of the Day is from Joshua James, the song Esperanza which translates as ‘hope’ in Spanish was inspired by Jack kerouac’s 1960 novella Tristessa, a tragic love story set in Mexico City.
Helen reviews Polly Paulusma latest release ‘The Small Feat of My Reverie’, in many ways a precursor to her 2012 release ‘Leaves From The Family Tree’.
Stick In The Wheel embody the paradox of making great, vital and unashamedly new music from influences that are ancient, highly personal and brimming with local individuality. They are London at its dirty, inspired best.
