Rob caught up with Modern Studies in Birmingham while they were on tour promoting their debut album ‘Swell to Great.’ While the tour is over the momentum created by the reception of their album isn’t as they prepare for their BBC Quay Session in Glasgow next month.
It is ‘Burning The Threshold’s’ tangible atmosphere as much as its songcraft that makes it one of Ben Chasny’s (Six Organs of Admittance) most accomplished and accessible releases to date.
For their latest album, husband and wife duo Truckstop Honeymoon decided to make things a family affair. Recruiting their kids as musicians, Big Things and Little Things was recorded around their dining room table.
Listen in full to Michael Chapman’s new record 50, titled to commemorate fifty years of touring, is his first “American record” and the first in years recorded with a full band under the watchful ear of producer Steve Gunn. It his undeniable late-career masterpiece.
Nadia Reid has revealed her new video for The Arrow and The Aim, taken from her forthcoming album Preservation. Shot in Mt Somers, just outside of Christchurch in New Zealand.
Listen to a remix by Stick in the Wheel’s Ian Carter – ‘Aleppo In The Sun As It Was’ features Eliza Carthy and MC Dizraeli. The track featured on Eliza Carthy’s recent limited edition tour CD EP.
Son of the Velvet Rat is a Joshua Tree-based husband and wife duo. Dorado, their sixth album, is a haunting and soulful offering which was produced by Joe Henry….for those who like their music steeped in the parched sand, dry rocks, forbidding cacti and mournful night winds.
Lisa Knapp announces her third studio album ‘Til April is Dead – A Garland of May Songs.’ Special guests include ground-breaking folk singer, Mary Hampton, David Tibet and Graham Coxon – due for release by Ear to the Ground Records on 28th April 2017.
With an intense acoustic style and pared-down arrangements reminiscent of Nick Drake, our Song of the Day comes from french artist Raoul Vignal with Hazy Days, the first single from his forthcoming album The Silver Veil.
Following the release of their debut album ‘Across The Water’ back in December, Alex Cumming and Nicola Beazley are to head out on tour. So don’t miss their tales of drama on the high seas, jealous lovers, and sheep shearing, long lost traditional tunes, and a masterclass in musicianship.
Listen to the new single ‘I Won’t Live Until I Die’ from Morgan Cameron Ross, a song that sees him straying away from the world of pop and sounding all the better for it.
West Virginian poet Randi Ward publishes Whipstitches…about how people, words, images, memory, and other things become bound up in one another— even as they are simultaneously becoming something else.
