Our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest is Jarrod Dickenson; he talks us through the objects on his shelves, and, alongside some treasured photos and touching stories, he also talks about the pleasures of coffee and fine whiskies from around the world.
Yalla Miku is an exhilarating debut that reaches beyond the norm with its vitality and passion. The Geneva-based group have produced an album that is truly ‘Musique Sans Frontières’.
Ruth Theodore has announced the release of Cherry Picker, a career-spanning compilation record and shares the lead single and lyric video ‘People People’ on which the social narrative teeters between futility and ferocity without losing its sense of humour or our sense of Ruth’s humility.
Listen to the beautiful new single from The Chapin Sisters – “Lily wrote ‘Bergen Street’ as she was leaving Brooklyn to move back to the Hudson Valley village that we grew up in…It’s a bittersweet ode. Not a sad moment, exactly, but wistful.”
With ‘I Saw A Star…’, Bennet Wilson Poole have produced an album that is as exhilaratingly brilliant and accomplished as their debut. It is as prime an example of high-class, polished, rewarding and entertaining music that you are likely to hear.
Watch the video for ‘Holes’, the upbeat and vibrant new single from Irish-born London-based guitar folk-pop artist Brian Grogan. As the footage testifies, this is dripping with danceable, feel-good rhythmic beats.
We chat to Alec Bowman_Clarke about the making of his short film ‘Never Again’, a ‘feel good-ish film, a heartwarming & sometimes funny story about how dreams, kind of, sometimes, maybe, can come a little bit true.’
On 21st April, Shorty’s Ark, the debut picture book from Will Oldham and illustrator Lori Damiano will be published via Drag City. The book is based on the song by Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney – watch them performing the song live.
James Jackson Toth announces James & The Giants, produced by Jarvis Taveniere. Watch the Ryan Weibush-directed video for the lead single ‘Hall of Mirrors’.
Pioneering multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Cosmo Sheldrake, announces ‘Wild Wet World’. Listen to his first single “Bathed in Sound”, to be released this Friday (31st March) as part of Brian Eno’s Earth Percent Charity campaign.
In Stolen From God, Reg Meuross has unquestionably written his masterpiece in a song cycle that turns an unflinching eye on the toxic legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, especially in his home in the South West of England.
Tell Me World is the debut album from Tapestri, a duo featuring Lowri Evans and Sarah Zyborska and surely a contender for the Welsh answer to First Aid Kit.
