Last month, LYG house band Dave Hughes and the Renegade Folk Punk Band headed down to London to open for their Corporate Records labelmates The…
Hold onto your hats folks, it’s my first New Favourite Band of the year! The History of Apple Pie will be releasing their debut album,…
“Low Winter Sun”, the first track to emerge from the magnificent Kid Canaveral’s second album, is my new jam. Um, both literally and figuratively. The…
Am I right in thinking there was once a time when special editions of albums truly were special, rather than seeming increasingly like an inevitable…
My month without internet access will enter its final week tomorrow and MY GOD, but it couldn’t come soon enough. While I don’t miss those…
Since they’re one of two diamond-centric bands featuring exquisitely-voiced singers with connections to the Decemberists that emerged around the same time, I’ve been guilty of…
Second Shelter is a self-described “electro-shambles” project from Ewan McDonald, better known as the drummer with Glasgow band This Silent Forest. It’s a fantastic turn…
Shush. It was a local holiday yesterday. And I was, in fact, working during it. Single-handedly. I’m entitled to be a wee bit behind. I’ve…
The faintest beginnings of some sense of relief are finally beginning to creep into my bones as I get closer to my trip to Boston…
IT’S HERE – at least for those of you reading this from somewhere European. The Gaslight Anthem’s fourth album, Handwritten, hits your local independent record…
Okay, full disclosure: in the years since I discovered Louise McVey’s compelling voice with its alternating tones of death and honey I’ve become lucky enough…
21-member strong all-female choir Gaggle has been one of my more interesting musical discoveries of the year. Led by Deborah Coughlin, they’ve been around for…
