Every-since Bob Dylan released his new album of Frank Sinatra covers, I have had Dylan on my mind. I started thinking about the best covers Dylan, i.e. the covers he has done. After a day trawling through Dylan’s various interpretations of other artists somgs, I decided to flip the coin. What are the best covers […]
View Post Bob Dylan, Elvis, Julie London, Nick Cave, Sebastian Coote, The Dead Weather, The Walker Brothers, Wanda Jackson, William Shatner, Yo La Tengo
Releasing one song every month for the next year, Oh Wonder’s most recent offering will make you move to a ‘Technicolour Beat’. According to the London based duo (previously known as Wonder Wonder), the overall aim of this yearlong project is to eventually release a 13-track album on September 1st 2015. This unusual and slow […]
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With now less than two months to go before Live at Leeds embarks upon its ninth annual outing, last year’s winner of the coveted ‘Best Metropolitan Festival’ award has just announced a further fifty acts to be added to its already very impressive bill. Joining a whole host of international, national and local acts that […]
View Post Carl Barat & The Jackals, Dry The River, Dutch Uncles, EAGULLS, Gaz Coombes, George The Poet, HOOKWORMS, Lauren Aquilina, Live at Leeds, Lucy Rose, Pulled apart by horses, Raleigh Ritchie, Slaves, Stormzy, The Strypes, Thurston Moore
We’ve come together with Brontone Management to give you a free three track EP in support of their East London showcase at the Old Blue Last on the 10th of March. Featuring three up and coming bands who are under their umbrella including the punky kick and Supergrass like urgent melodies of Coventry band YES […]
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It’s been almost a year since I first met Pennsylvanian songwriter Vikesh Kapoor, who was touring the UK for the first time opening for The Handsome Family. What struck me most (and no doubt others) at the time, was that this was someone special who is able to fuse folk, Americana, blues and soul, creating something […]
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Let the 10th anniversary celebrations begin in earnest for Latitude Festival has just revealed the first details of this year’s line-up. Portishead, the Leeds indie rock band and former Mercury Prize winners alt-J and Noel Gallagher’s Flying Birds will all headline the festival’s Obelisk Arena stage. Amongst those who are also scheduled to appear at […]
View Post Alt J, Caribou, femi kuti, James Blake, José González, Latitude Festival 2015, Laura Marling, Lianne La Havas, Manic Street Preachers, Noel Gallagher’s Flying Birds, Portishead, seasick steve, Wild Beasts
We have the exclusive premiere of DC’s The Paranoid Style and their new EP ‘Rock & Roll Just Can’t Recall’ stream it below, it’s out this week on Battle Recordings. Laced with the sharp words and vocal melodies of Elizabeth Nelson, whose knowing vocal tone plays with rock and roll myths and is the voice […]
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Californian singer-songwriter Ed Prosek has gifted us an exclusive airing of the acoustic version of his song “Home” which was released as part of his EP last year, “The Riverbed“. Listen below, it showcases his crumpled acoustic sound that echoes the emotive subtlety of John Martyn, and a falsetto and brittle backing redolent of Bon […]
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Don’t make Stewart Lee angry. You wouldn’t like Stewart Lee when he’s angry. And tonight, Stewart Lee is very angry indeed. (Fans of the comic will know the antagonistic stand-up is both a huge Incredible Hulk aficionado – having won celebrity Mastermind with the green monster as his specialist subject – and has a previous […]
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Even before they had released their last record – the huge, dramatic opus that is Terrafidella – The Horn The Hunt had already begun work on its follow up. Between April and October of last year, the duo of Clare Carter and Joseph Osborne embarked upon an intense period of creativity that would eventually produce […]
View Post Clare Carter, Conor Lawrence, Joseph Osborne, The Horn The Hunt, Wovo
