Jonathan Aird

I See Hawks In LA have huge summer tour of the UK

July 12, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Earlier this year I See Hawks In LA brought out a new album, ‘Live and Never Learn‘, a full and long five years after their previous masterpiece ‘Mystery Drug‘. The new album drew on recent hard […]

Richie Havens “Something Else Again” (Floating World Records, 2018)

July 11, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Something Else Again‘ was originally released in 1968 and is one of a clutch of late 1960’s / early 1970’s albums that represent the first Golden period of Richie Havens’ music – his last 3 or […]

Marisa Anderson “Cloud Corner” (Independent, 2018)

July 10, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Marisa Anderson is a Portland based guitarist with several previous albums to her name, whose latest release ‘Cloud Corner‘ continues along a path of guitar instrumental pictures in sound. Here Marisa Anderson has found herself wandering […]

David Myhr “Lucky Day” (Monogram Recordings/Lojinx, 2018)

July 9, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Not many albums cross our paths that are the product of research for a doctoral thesis – in fact ‘Lucky Day‘ may be the first such. David Myhr has been working for four years on researching […]

AmericanA to Z : The Byrds

July 6, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Not every A-Z artist is a complete unknown, sometimes it’s good to remember just how good some of the seminal bands really were. The Byrds are the band that spawned a thousand jangly guitar bands, seemingly […]