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Tompkins Square’s enduring admiration for Canadian troubadour Bruce Cockburn is hardly news to anyone paying attention. To commemorate Cockburn’s 80th birthday this week, they enlisted contemporary guitar maestro Eli Winter to offer his interpretations of some of Cockburn’s beloved tracks. ‘To Keep the World We Know’ includes Winter’s take on “Foxglove” alongside a collection of entirely new recordings.
In a move that’s sure to stir the hearts of many, Will Johnson and the surviving members of the revered Magnolia Electric Co. have officially joined forces under the new moniker Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. Today, they’ve unveiled a roaring new version of “The Big Beast” and announced a forthcoming 7-inch record, slated for a September release.
Los Angeles’s own cosmic voyagers, Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer, have offered another tantalizing glimpse into their forthcoming album, Different Rooms. Their latest dispatch, Side by Side, finds the duo in esteemed company, joined by the ever-exploratory guitarist Jeff Parker. The track is a potent teaser for the full-length, which is slated to arrive on June 20 via the reliably forward-thinking International Anthem.
Ty Segall’s new album, Possession, drops on Drag City tomorrow (May 30th). As previously shared, Ty enlisted his old friend and longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, to write with him. Shared today, Matt also directed, produced, and edited the video for ‘Buildings’, which was shot in Downtown Los Angeles and Porter Street Studio.
Previously described by fellow Newcastle maverick Richard Dawson as beguiling, idiosyncratic and cinematic, watch the accompanying video to ‘Ancient Summer’, the latest single from Me Lost Me, taken from her forthcoming new album, This Material Moment. She says, “The music video is a kind of nod to ancient Roman Spring/Summer festivals and the English folk traditions I grew up with, like May Day celebrations, Morris dancing and well dressings.”
Canadian quintet Foxwarren, featuring Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis, have dropped a surreal video for their latest single ‘Deadhead’, the final preview from their new album, 2, out this Friday via ANTI-. It’s a genius slice of wit and vision from the video’s Director, Joe Cappa, that transports the song onto another level.
“Maybe I’m Dreaming” is a new Anthology Recordings compilation that delves into the isolated wilds of the private pressing, where production quirks, late-night tape hiss, and one-man studio dreams were not necessarily a choice but the hand you were dealt. Documenting a spirit that’s more homespun, sometimes lonelier, and often a little weirder, listen to the first single, “Just Whistle” by the Watson Brothers Band.
INNI-K has shared her latest single and video, Beatha. As if triggered by spring, it has a pulsing earthy energy, emphasised by catchy beats and a great off-kilter fiddle riff that gives the song an untamed sense of freedom, reflecting the vitality of life and the mysterious forces of nature. Inspired by a veg-growing course, Beatha could be an anthem for self-sufficiency.
Hot on the heels of his latest album, Time Indefinite, William Tyler has announced ’41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s’, his debut collaboration with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), who also produced and mixed the album, which was recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville, USA. Listen to the first song, If I Had a Boat, a Lyle Lovett cover, which clocks in at over 11 minutes long.
Taken from her new album, Second Circle The Horizon, listen to Sally Anne Morgan’s latest single ‘Eye is the First’ – a rustling journey featuring a repeated slow guitar appregios and a more narrative-sounding banjo with organic sounding shimmering rustles conjuring the gentle movement of a breeze. While meditative, it also joyously reveals Morgan’s deep bond with nature and how she intuitively interweaves this into her creations.
Taken from his latest album Salt River, Sam Amidon delivered an excellent live rendition of Lou Reed’s ‘Big Sky’ on Later… With Jools Holland. In a KLOF Mag interview, Amidon told us he “exacerbated that folk-like quality in the verses…The repetitive structure of the lyrics is also very folk-like; I just felt that for all his New York edge, he was trying to give us a very simple, beautiful message.”
Fiddle and guitar duo Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell sign to Real World Records and announce Tomorrow Held. Watch the video for their lead single, MacGill, that pays homage to the creative partnership of Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell: “It’s slightly more jazz-influenced in terms of harmony and sound than the other stuff on the record,” says Spafford. “We’re going to that sweet spot at the folky end of jazz.”