Joan Shelley announces new album Like The River Loves The Sea, recorded in Iceland with James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg as her backing band. Watch the accompanying animated video for ‘Cycle’, our Song of the Day.
The boundary-pushing Colombian group Meridian Brothers returns with ‘¿Dónde Estás María?’. Their fourth album on Soundway will coincide with the start of a month-long European tour including a show at London’s Rich Mix.
Read our guest post from London-based, half-German singer-songwriter and producer Vanessa Anne Redd as she talks us through her new album Behind the Wall which is out now on Sharp Attack Records. She’s playing a one-off London show at Servant Jazz Quarters on 9 November.
Arthur Jeffes proves he’s more than capable of following in his father’s footsteps as the Penguin Cafe prepare for their sophomore release ‘The Red Book’ and a UK Tour.
Day One of KAN’s Indian tour blog. They take in the madness of Mumbai helped by a James Bond style taxi ride, they chill in the beauitful Taj hotel and Brian gives an insight into the flute in Indian music.
One night in 1997, Alex Chilton and his band were getting ready to play their second set when the lights went out. This was the result…a beautiful spontaneous acoustic performance.
Darren Hayman And The Long Parliament latest album ‘The Violence’ focuses on the 17th century Essex Witch Trials, bringing fear and violence into a modern day context…a masterful album!
Welcome to the world of Su Blackwell. A ridiculously talented woman who creates sculptures from books with a craft knife. The results are unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Amazingly beautiful!
Texan band Okkervil River have revealed the second video to album standout track ‘Your Past Life As A Blast’ ahead of their UK tour starting this week.
About a week ago, Sigur Ros released a trailer and not a lot else in way of information. Up until recently this new project was a mystery. The new project is in fact a double live album and 75 minute film. The full title is: INNI – THE DEFINITIVE SIGUR RÓS LIVE EXPERIENCE.
Hailing originally from Canada , Po’ Girl weave a blend of musical influences, sweetness, grit & soul into their fresh and original sound. The interplay between Allison Russell, Awna Teixeira, Benny Sidelinger, and Mikey “Lightning” August is truly something to behold.
With a recent promise of Songs from the Past we spent some time looking back through our audio library which was very time consuming but a nostalgic experience and came across this: Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder – Talking Timbuktu.
