Chamberlin is the biggest band from Vermont that no one there has ever really heard of. As their debut album Bitter Blood drops, the eight-month-old act finds themselves criss-crossing the country in the midst of national tours, having played but a handful of shows in their home state.
There is a great co-ordinated effort taking place at cleaning up the riot aftermath. Twitter is being used to get volunteers in the right places, the image above shows volunteers turning up with brooms and buckets to help out.
A three story warehouse owned by Sony DADC and based in Enfield went up in flames last night during the continued London riots. The PIAS Group which holds stock there is one of the main distributors for independent record labels in the UK.
Blind Atlas hail from Denver and disparate points around the U.K. and came together in the bohemian suburbs of south Manchester. Combining the traditional melancholy of the classic Northern sound with the boozy soul of American alternative country.
Cloud Seeding is a music project by guitarist Kevin Serra (This Ascension, Lot 49.) The project was conceived as a space for collaboration to showcase vocalists he admires. For the first single, Serra worked with Boston-based singer Marissa Nadler. Download it now.
PJ Harvey is set to play at London’s Royal Albert Hall on October 30th. Tickets for the show go on-sale on Friday August 12th. This will be PJ Harvey’s first appearance at this historic venue, following shows in Glasgow and Manchester next month, and further recently announced European dates.
Richmond Fontaine’s frontman, Willy Vlautin, has already established his credible talents as a songwriter and novelist. It therefore seems inevitable that the two creative ends would eventually intertwine. The High Country, does just that by becoming a song-novel.
Steve Earle released I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive back in April this year which accompanied the publication of his first novel sharing the same title. Find out more about the Hank Williams connection and get those Uk and European Tour dates!
Society are a three piece band from West Sussex whose music ranges across country-soul, indie and folk-rock. Their album ‘Songs from the Brickhouse’ was released in 2009. You can hear clear influences of West Coast Country Rock and their three part harmonies set them apart from the crowd.
Brendan Trinkle’s latest album release, The Quarry, was recorded during the winter of 2011. “One hears often that beauty is all around, that art imitates life, that real life is stranger than fiction, but I think perhaps many of the words we write aspire toward our ideals.”
Many of you will by now be familiar with the early inspired English Folk Rock sound of Galley Beggar whose album, Reformation House, we reviewed back in June. They have put together a fantastic session for your enjoyment which you can listen to below.
