Slowcoustic (Free subscription) | yesterday
You know you are here as you enjoy the hushed delivery and molasses cadence of some great music. So when you receive notice on an album called "Lights Off, Headphones On"...you should look into it.
First Drafts (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
While a member of Blur, multi-instrumentalist Graham Coxon released four solo albums, mixing garage rock, folk and heavy riffs with the band’s trademark power pop. Since his departure from Blur in 2002, Coxon has made three more records. The latest is grounded in a passion for English folk music, heavily influenced by Bert Jansch, and [...]
Redirected Email Feed (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
As you've previously bought or browsed folk music on CD, we thought you might be interested in the selection of bestselling titles below. Five Leaves Left Gather In The Mushrooms Tracy Chapman Bryter Layter Pictures Awkward Annie A Maid In Bedlam The Secret of Life More bestselling folk CDs Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake Average customer review: Price: £4.78 Rate this item: I own it Gather In...
The Panic Manual (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Reviewed by Ashley Botting If you hate theatre, I ask that you forget you feel that way. For just one night. And go see Stuff Happens, running now through December 23rd at the Royal Alex. You’re going to like it. I promise. Mirvish Productions and Studio 180 have teamed up to remount the play, which previously ran [...] Related posts: Theatre Review: Next Stage Theatre Festival Ah, the mid-Winter...
My hmphs (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Beatles Any song accompanied by a piano and violin The chord progression of George Michael’s “Praying for Time“ “Come On Eileen” Key changes Mike Viola The Edge’s guitar playing Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound The British Invasion of the 80s “Isn’t it a Pity” by George Harrison (both versions) The 7/4 signature of Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
I was chatting to the local indie record store owner, who is always looking for interesting ways to display his wares and prompt the odd purchase. A lot of the punters are somewhat sheepish, impressionable youngsters clutching their first Led Zeppelin, Roy Harper, Stooges, Floyd etc album and it struck me that it might be worthwhile having a display showing 'How to buy' a particular genre, era or...
NOIZE MAKES ENEMIES (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Thomas Dybdahl is one of the most famous figures in the Norwegian pop scene, and after his fourth album “Science”, released in 2006, he has enjoyed some success in Europe as well as in America. When you think of the Norwegian music scene, what comes to mind is a stage with heavy metal acts emulating rites of ancient Viking mythology, worshipping goblins, trolls and... things in a club where...
_Paddy K_ (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I’ve been spending a lot of time doing boring repetitive things at work, or just hiding from people by having headphones on (and we all do this, don’t we). This has co-incided with my discovery of the excellent GrooveShark and, since Spotify and Last.Fm are banned at my work, and iTunes only works on the moon, this pads [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Da Vinci and Einstein? They're old news – the future is the present Poll: Vote for your greatest living genius As Marc Abrahams writes today (24 November) in EducationGuardian, psychologists spend an enormous amount of energy arguing about what genius is, and where it comes from. That said, anyone would be hard pushed to argue that Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein were not...
Kid Vinyl (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Following the announcement of her involvement with January’s ‘Way To Blue’ series of concerts celebrating Nick Drake’s music; Vashti Bunyan will be playing six UK headline dates in April and May. She is currently working on a new album, the follow up to 2005’s long- awaited ‘Lookaftering’ with Andy Cabic of Vetiver tipped for the [...]
BlogAsheville (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
J. Tillman w/ Pearly Gate Music at the Grey Eagle 9pm $8 advance / $10 day of show. Standing room only. If you like Band of Horses, Bon Iver or Fleet Foxes, you will probably love this guy. From allmusic.com Singer/songwriter J. Tillman's music paints languid, sadly beautiful portraits of love and life on the margins with the moody depth of Nick Drake and the country-influenced textures of Ryan Adams....
Vinyl Art (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
"I didn't just marry a beautiful woman, I married a record collection." - anti_tomwaits Me too. My wife's taste in music has had a HUGE impact on what I listen to regularly now. All the modern British bands, the Black Crowes, The Jayhawks, Dave Matthews, Kings of Leon, The White Stripes, and honestly, The Rolling Stones are new to me since meeting and marrying my wife. I wouldn't have gone...
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Vashti Bunyan, the poster woman for resurrected 1970s folkies, has announced some UK dates to add to her already scheduled appearance at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow in January, where she’ll be part of the lineup of a Nick Drake tribute show. She’ll visit Brighton, London and Warwick in late January, and follow that [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Anyone else been turned on by this? It's taken me forever to get around to ripping compilation albums for the i-Thingy and this morning I dusted down this album of 'Protest, Sorrow, Hobos, Folk and Blues' compiled by Jon Savage in 2005. God it's good. Everything released in 1970, hence some truly great stoner/mellow classics. I was familiar with some of the songs (Free's Mouthful of Grass, Rod Stewart's...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Who: The 37-year-old son of Paul Simon, who’s casting out under his own name for the first time with his fall debut (read the RS review). Simon says the process of becoming a solo artist was a “journey of discovery” and though he was hesitant to step into the spotlight, “I realized, ‘If I don’t [...]
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