Videos
Video: Joana Serrat “Unnamed”
As you may have read on this site last week, the wonderful Joana Serrat starts a UK tour in Manchester on Thursday 24th. This lovely four and a half minutes is from her new album ‘Dripping […]
Month: January 2019
Album Reviews
The Bills “Trail of Tales” (Borealis, 2016)
Five days before his death from typhoid fever and the final tertiary stage of syphilis in November 1828, Franz Schubert requested that a friend, Karl Holz, bring his string quartet to his deathbed and play for […]
News
Nicole Atkins announces UK tour for April
So yet again it’s the weekend dear reader, just in time for the most miserable day of the year. Cheer yourself up with news that Nashville crooner Nicole Atkins, who recently toured the UK with Mercury Rev, will […]
Album Reviews
Bob Sumner “Wasted Love Songs” (Independent, 2019)
Bob Sumner is used to rocking out with his brother as one half of the Sumner Brothers, but this debut solo release finds him in a more reflective mood. The folk-based Americana of ‘Wasted Love Songs’ […]
Political Pops
Pick of the Political Pops: Tracy Chapman “Talking About A Revolution”
This week sees the one-hundredth anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg (and her political ally and co-founder of the anti-war Spartakusbund Karl Liebknecht). Luxemburg was Polish by birth but became a naturalised German citizen. She […]