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.
Watch Dan Wilde’s new video for ‘Abusing My Position’, from his 2nd studio album ‘With Fire In Mind.’ Filmed in the Cambridge Museum of Technology, set in the thick of the industrial revolution. Dan is on tour now.
Kentucky native and American Primitive guitarist Mark Fosson has been making music for nearly fifty years now. Solo Guitar, to be released on Drag City, finds him focusing on the austerity of the guitar, plain and simple, to bring out the music.
The Poetry and Lyrics Festival returns to Kings Place in June, celebrating the inexorable link between music and verse. Including Jackie Oates, Nest Collective, Don Paterson & PJ Harvey, Kayo Chingonyi, Kristin McClement, Murray Lachlan Young and more.
Nathaniel Mann’s latest project – SF Cody: Rushmoor Epic, is based on the life and antics of Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight, Samuel Franklin Cody. A new video provides a great overview of the project, an album is in the works for later this year.
Whilst following the footsteps of earlier East-West musical blendings from the 70’s, Phoenician Drive sound like no other. Listen to ‘Two Coins for the Boatman’, our Song of the Day, taken from their debut EP which is out now.
Watch the first music video from Blato Zlato, a New Orleans-based Balkan band. Miatalo Lenche Iabalka is a humorous Bulgarian folk tune about a girl who throws an apple into the air and declares that whoever catches it is the person she will marry.
Watch ‘Walking Where No Man Will Ever Tread’, the debut single from The Lion’s Tail, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer Luc Deutschmann. Epic Americana folk with a strong scent of the Scandinavian Highlands.
