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Ex-Hefner frontman, Darren Hayman is due to release a new duet with Emmy The Great, titled Calling Out Your Name Again. Darren Hayman met Emma-Lee Moss when they were both recording sessions for a radio station in North London. At the time, Darren was forging his post-Hefner identity while Emma-Lee was perched on the cusp of success.
Big nod to Colin Meloy for tweeting this. This was the reason given for cancelling The New Pornographers gig at Calvin College who describe themselves as Christian and an academically excellent liberal arts college that shapes minds for intentional participation in the renewal of all things. Hmmmm, this sounds a bit screwed up to me…that they are worried about being mistakenly linked to pornography…crazy world we live in
I woke up this morning, a bit jaded from the late night post-show session but with the firm thought in my head that I’ve found my dream festival of all time, and that’s not the Guiness talking! A combination of great acts organised by a passionate trio in the amazing city of Belfast. If I’m honest, I’m a bit overwhelmed by the whole experience so far, it has gone well …
Matador records are going all out with the launch of Belle and Sebastians forthcoming album Write About Love due out on October 12th. Last week saw the launch of the first in a series of televisual transmissions of varying sizes and shapes from Matador to mark the album’s impending release. Here’s the first one which features two new tracks from the album: “I Want The World To Stop” and “I …
Will Sheff of Okkervil River recently played a solo show at The Living Room in New York, during which he treated the crowd to two new songs “Walked Out On A Line” and “Lay of the Last Survivor” which you can watch below. His label, Jagjaguwar are not giving anything away on whether the songs will appear on the next Okkervil River record. Although I’d hazard a guess that there …
We recently posted about the release of Black Mountain’s new album Wilderness Heart. The band have just released a new video for “The Hair Song” which was directed by Zoe Bower and Simon Chan. It tells a great story based around those coming of age years that many of you may remember…how can you forget?…or you’re having those hassles right now such as being shut out of clubs and having …
Nathaniel Rateliff of Denver will be making his first debut appearance in Ireland this week at the Open House Festival in Belfast. Nathaniel will be performing on Wednesday 8th September at the Festival Marquee, a performance that I’m personally looking forward to seeing this week. This will be a great highlight of the festival as the crowd will also be treated to Iron and Wine and Low Anthem in the …
When Hi54lofi Records, based in Edmonton, Canada contacted us, linking their website we felt like we’d struck oil: a mountain of music from all over the globe, that unless your were an agoraphobic, insomniac no amount of Myspace/Lastfm/YouTube trawling would help you track down all the brilliant artists they cite. They aren’t really a record label as such, just a bunch of like minded folk hoping to spread the word about music they …
The Cave Singers have a unique sound that is unmistakeable. Since first releasing Dancing on our Graves they have been causing a stir. There is a raw energy in their music more akin to that of an Old Time band. Their music isn’t complicated and Derek’s guitar picking along with Pete’s vocals and Marty’s percussion create a simple sound that is both original and captivating.