As of old, the liquor flows and the young professionals sprawl and swarm across the ground floor bar. A poodle tethered to a table leg shoots me a long enquiring look as if to ask “Here we are, again?” We’re…
‘Beneath The Eyrie’ by the Pixies comes at you like a wave – twenty feet high, drenched from the players’ exertions and all American. It’s an important record right now because it helps explain what has happened to rock made…
If there is one avatar that has managed to lodge itself in our collective consciousness in the post-war decades, it is that of the lone troubadour, a guitar slung across his midriff, his neck craned, leaning into the microphone, alone…
Canadian songwriter Mo Kenney returns to our headphones with her upcoming new single, ‘Unglued’. This is the first single to be taken from her much anticipated new album The Details, which is due for release later this year. A catchy little track, ‘Unglued’…
We’ve been lucky enough for London roots-rock band Curse Of Lono to put together some of their favourite tracks of 2016 for you… So here we are. 2016 is over and we’re still alive, which is more than we can…
Taken from their upcoming album, The Mining Co. have now shared a new single, ‘Country Heart’. Filled with sweeping Americana-inspired melodies and the distinctive raw vocals of Michael Gallagher, ‘Country Heart’ is a rich and heartfelt alt-folk anthem. Watch the…
A gothic Gram Parsons drowning in reverb and crooning romantic woe, George Cessna looks like an old cowboy ghost as he stands lonesome and lost on a Baltimore rooftop in the video for his track ‘Leave Me Alone’. Under pink…
Rating: A simple and effective album if you like your blues white rather than black, and with an unexpected emotional depth: Roy’s Gang: Served with sidewinder distortion and reverb, this opener is a straight-ahead six-minute 12-bar slide blues work out,…
With a slow-burning magnetism that dares you to look away as it imperceptibly builds up a critical mass to blossom into a payoff of mega proportions, any individual song by The War On Drugs could be seen as a microcosm…