“I’ve been gigging here there and everywhere, all over the country, mainly solo,” says Alex Lipinski, perched on a stool in the subterranean sanctum of Clerkenwell’s Betsey Trotwood pub. Down here we’re both content to leave the ghosts of the…
With their first show being supporting Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, and having already received acclaim from the likes of Huw Stephens and Clash Magazine, electro-folk duo Saint Sister have been fast making a name for themselves. Having formed in 2014,…
Scottish folk musician and singer-songwriter Mairearad Green has played in various bands and toured with the likes of Karine Polwart, as well as performing at Cambridge Folk Festival and Celtic Connections Festival. Having been introduced to folk music at a young…
Between the peeling Deco walls and under the warm overhanging multi-hued bulbs of Liverpool’s Leaf Café, the audience cozy together for what promises to be a mellow evening of leftfield folk from This Is The Kit, a.k.a Kate Stables &…
Rating: With fourth album The Sparrow and the Thief, five-strong Welsh band Rag Foundation have delivered an invigorating breath of fresh folk air that keeps you on your toes with its capacity to stir emotions and hold them in balance….
Rating: With their fiesty red locks and refusal to succumb to cliche love songs, the Worry Dolls’ second EP Burden is a stomping example of cowgirl country folk, Pistol Annie style. It’s like looking through a lens into a dusty…
Rating: Only few would disagree with the absolute satisfaction the discovery of a deliciously folky singer can bring. Every velvety, warming syllable wraps around the soul like an angelic hug. This is proven on an occasional basis when I am…
Liverpool based singer-songwriter, John Joseph Brill, has recently shared new track, ‘Muscle and Bone’, which has been described as an “immense moody anthem filled with a bitterness and angst to rival Kurt Cobain”. Having previously fronted London ‘doom-folk’ band, Burning Beard, Brill…