This is simply brilliant! A taster of Aidan O’Rourke’s new album ‘Hotline’. Listen to ‘TAT-1’, Martyn Bennett would have loved a piece of this action…this is Scottish inventors at their musically best! Stunning!
The High and Lonesome Sound combines Cohen’s vintage photos, film and musical recordings as well as an anecdotal text into a multimedia tribute to Roscoe Holcomb an underappreciated legend of American music.
The latest Simple Folk Radio show features an incredible band called OHIOAN. Over the years, the band has involved members of Castanets/Raymond Byron & the White Freighter, Old Time Relijun/Malaikat dan Singa, Jackie-O Motherfucker
We talk to joint head of Topic Records David Suff about ‘The Great Big Digital Archive Project’ which kicks off the end of this month. David also puts together a playlist of favourites for you to enjoy!
The hugely talented multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and painter Barry Kerr has released a beautiful new single ‘The Leaving Song’ which is accompanied by a new video. Watch it now.
Lisa Germano is to release her new album ‘No Elephants’ via Badman Recording Co. The album touches on themes of communication and how disconnected we now are. Listen to the track Apathy and The Devil
New in our playlist is the soulful baritone of Sea Rowe and his latest album ‘The Salesman and The Shark’ which we’ve been playing over and over recently. A beautifully well-grounded album that gets deep inside you!
HMV, Britain’s last major music and entertainment chain, has gone bust. So where does that leave us now…far from all looking doom and gloom we believe the independent specialist market is bright!
Serafina Steer’s third album ‘The Moths are Real’ sees Jarvis Cocker step into production duty, something he won’t regret…the brilliance of this album is clear from the start, this belongs in the limelight!
Yo La Tengo’s latest release ‘Fade’ is a fitting milestone to their long career which exemplifies the stature and cohesion of this band as well as being direct, personal and more than a little uplifting!
Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn announce release of photographic book documenting their collaboration over the past four decades including the first published collection of musings and photographs taken by Waits himself.
Blaenavon are a new three-piece from Hampshire who have just announced the release of their debut single, listen to it now….these lads are ridiculously talented for their age 16 – 17!
