When I made a commitment as part of my 30 before 30 to “put on a gig”, the intention was really that it was only going to be a one-time deal. Sure it was a buzz, getting to hang out with some incredible musicians and create a sell-out night that the people who attended seemed [...]
Edwards performs opening track “Empty Threat” live for CBC. You know the cynic in me has her suspicions about the reasons that Voyageur, the fourth album from my personal goddess of americana Kathleen Edwards, is getting more attention in certain quarters than previous releases ever did but the fan in me doesn’t care. It’s not [...]
In the grand scheme of my musical traditions, it’s strange that I missed the boat on Dan Mangan for so long. Given that he is a) a beardy guy with guitar; with b) clever and articulate lyrics; and is c) Canadian you’d think I would have been all over him. And indeed I was, when [...]
I’m Kaite (@kaitewelsh), Lis’ erstwhile Edinburgh gig companion turned sporadic partner in London crime. Together, we buy cupcakes and glitter lipgloss and gatecrash members’ only cocktail bars. Thanks to her music recommendations, I can fool people into thinking I’m cool. We write in each other’s notebooks when we’re drunk and I’m still trying to teach [...]
Beatrice Eli – The Conqueror vs Underground Kings (Drake) Mash-Up by BeatriceEli Sometimes I’m a little bit of a hypocrite. I agreed wholeheartedly with Matthew’s post, last week, on shit remixes – I’ve had my inbox polluted with enough of these, generally from PR companies with ‘zeitgeist’ artists who maybe don’t have a new release [...]
You know, I totally shouldn’t be sharing this with the reasoning that if you cared enough to be on the phone at 10am tomorrow morning trying to compete with me for decent seats you’d already know that Ryan Adams was playing a bunch of UK dates in April, but I’m too nice for my own [...]
Last night Isle of Lewis songwriter Ali Murray, with whom I have been regularly conversing about cake since he dropped me a line to introduce me to his music, apologised that despite warnings to the contrary he had been addressing me as ‘Lisa’ from the beginning. I told him it was fine because when he [...]
I don’t engage with people who say my love of baked goods makes me less of a feminist. That’s all I have to say about that. That was me, on Twitter, on Saturday morning. Except then a couple of people retweeted me, so it turned out I did engage after all, so I figured I [...]
A band with an unGoogleable name is a bit of a pain, but this name and song title is only ever going to lead to embarassing screenshots. Regardless, this is the loveliest new thing I’ve been introduced to this year. Girl duo BOY hail from Zurich and Munich, and will be releasing their debut LP [...]
This month sees former Dears man Jon Cohen (or “The Jon Cohen Experimental”, as he terms his solo project) embark on his first European tour – and he’s planning to blog the entire process. While he’s hardly the first artist to do so it was the lengthy, insightful posts on his own site that first [...]
One of my favourite things about the turning of the year is wiping my iPod in anticipation of a year’s new music – it’s in these early months, with gaps to fill, that I’m reminded of the old favourites I haven’t had a chance to listen to in a while. Last night it was “Afterglow [...]
Somewhere around the time that my email account changed over I lost a whole bunch of band submissions, which is hardly an excuse for the level of tardiness I’m currently operating at when it comes to getting back to people (the relevant email folder currently stands at 348, if you’re interested) but is something of [...]
