The gestation period for Patterson Hood’s Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams runs about 40 years. Which means events from his past have rung and stung him in different ways than they would have if some of the events described in these songs had been recorded more quickly. But distance brings with it a unique sense of perspective....
There are but three guarantees in life. Taxes, death and Seth Lakeman delivering magnificent albums. 13 studio albums and 23 years after he released his first solo effort, The Punch Bowl, Lakeman presents to the world a set that shows what you can do with a story and a song. From chasing the sinister ‘Black Fox’ across...
Tracking all the changes Nadia Reid has gone through since her last album, Out of My Province came out in 2020, it becomes obvious we are dealing with a very different woman, one who has had a series of changes. She has had two children, moved about half a world from New Zealand to Manchester, and recorded...
Bonnie “Prince” Billy marches to his own beat. As a musician he’s recorded with everyone from Johnny Cash to Bitchin Bajas, he’s acted in John Sayle’s movie Matewan and appeared with Zach Galifianakis in a Kayne West video. He does things his own way, which is why The Purple Bird is only his second record with an...
Born into a creative household, Scottish singer/songwriter Rhona Macfarlane was exposed to folk music from an early age and received classical training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Co-produced with Matt Ingram, her wonderfully honest debut album As The Chaos Unfolds bursts onto the scene full of life, her gorgeous rich, wistful vocals taking us through the...
Magic occurs when people set aside preconceived notions and open their hearts and minds to a world that operates in ways we can’t understand. Throughout her career Mary Chapin Carpenter has been a solo artist. Yet during the pandemic she longed to collaborate. But not with just anyone. She wanted to work with Scottish singer-songwriter Julie Fowlis...
Tunng albums transcend time. They don’t fit in a pattern of what’s popular at any particular moment. They use elements that seem to be ridiculously out of place, forming an off kilter whole residing in a world of its own. While Love You All Over Again is five years on from Dead Club, it tracks their progression...
After 2021’s rightfully and universally acclaimed album Ignorance, Tamara Lindeman found herself interviewed by the likes The New Yorker and Pitchfork as an unlikely spokesperson on the subject of climate grief. As the plaudits rained down though, little was known of how unwell she’d become behind the scenes. “These things I was experiencing; this alienation, this dissociation, this loss...
To Warm The Winter Hearth, the latest polyphonic masterpiece by New England vocal quartet Windborne, rolls in as the nights grow ever longer. The beautiful four-part harmonies offered by Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan and Will Rowan are the star of the show, but they are ably supported by guest musicians Yann Falquet on accordion and Katie...
Lucinda Williams hasn’t always walked the straightest road. Since 2020 she’s survived a tornado, the pandemic and a stroke that has to date kept her from playing the guitar. She’s also released two albums of her own work, and six discs devoted to the music of other artists, plus releasing her memoir Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets...
Jack Black will be part of Weezer‘s mysterious new movie. News of the Tenacious D musician’s involvement was confirmed...
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