The Somerset floods of 2014 provide the backdrop for writer-director Hope Dickson Leach’s highly assured debut The Levelling, which features a superb central performance from Game Of Thrones’ Ellie Kendrick.
Lion Coffee + Records is a one-of-a-kind space in the heart of Hackney; a coffee shop, venue and leading specialist vinyl record store offering new releases and reissues along with a range of curated vintage records and specialist box sets.
Scottish folk singer Emily Smith and New Zealand-born Jamie McClennan celebrate 15 years of making music together in 2017 as they kick-off their anniversary tour this month.
CARA have announced their first tour of England. Blending old and new material steeped in the Scottish and Irish traditions, they’re a band you don’t want to miss. Their fifth studio album, Yet We Sing, was a Featured Album of the Month on Folk Radio UK.
The door is open for a new close harmony acoustic female folk duo to get their foot in the gap, and Exeter-based Sound of the Sirens, Abbe Martin and Hannah Wood, are decidedly in with a chance.
This is up there with the very best of homegrown Americana and, if they could get some sort of national radio or TV play to provide the incentive to gig beyond their London stomping grounds, they would deservedly develop the following they assuredly warrant.
We have a song exclusive from Anna Coogan with The Auchengeich Mining Disaster to which she has added additional lyrics to those written by Norman Buchan. The music, especially the percussion from Willie B, transforms it into something so much more powerful and moving.
As Half Japanese prepare to kick off their European tour they release six new videos from their wildly eccentric and humorous, the energetic ‘Hear The Lions Roar’ – out now on Fire Records.
Sam Airey is to release his long awaited debut album ‘In Darkened Rooms’ on May 26th. Listen to the stunning ‘In the Morning’, a song he wrote at a time when he was reading a lot – Romantic poetry, Dylan Thomas, but also books about science and stardust…
With her new album set to be released on Rough Trade Records on July 7th, watch This is the Kit performing the title track ‘Moonshine Freeze’ a name inspired by childhood game she recalls ‘moonshine, moonshine, moonshine — Freeze!’
Her Crooked Heart is the new name / new music of Rachel Ries. Watch her new video/single Are You Good You Are from her latest EP To Gentlemen (5 May). She’s on tour this month, so don’t miss her.
Drawing on a mass of musical influences from North and South American pop and folk to Gypsy Jazz & classical music, Elias Krell’s ‘As Eli’ is unquestionably one of the summer’s brightest gems.
