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…
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…
So we had this deal, Jack James and I, that I was going to plug his new album a couple of days too late because…
So I was reading this thing the other day about how best to get your music featured on a blog and I had to laugh,…
It’s easy, for those of us of an americana/folkish bent, to listen to the multitude of such-themed music from the other side of the Atlantic…
I was a bit bad to Run/Lucky/Free. They wrote to me in late September to let me know that they were about to release a…
When you’re doing email interviews with bands you know very little about, it can be difficult to come up with anything new to ask them….
Above is the video for “Girl in the Night”, the new single from Dundee’s relentlessly cheerful singalong power-poppers The Hazey Janes. No surprise these guys…
This week, Brooklyn-based Americana band Numbers and Letters are touring Scotland for the first time. Frontwoman Katie Hasty suckered me in with a shared love…
Wee public service announcement first of all: I’m not usually in the habit of posting password-protected posts as you know, so apologies for yesterday. Though…
With first “proper” studio recording The White Feather Trail out this week, Scotland’s most self-deprecating songwriter and I talk controversy, greetin’ faced music and getting…
Canadian singer-songwriter chap with a guitar Rob Moir is breaking my heart. Here I was, thinking he had specially asked me to write about him…
