Album Reviews
Calexico “El Mirador”
A melting pot of styles, songs and supporters produces a brilliant album which insists that you dance to it. The mix of Mexican, Americana and Indie Rock that Calexico serve up has always been appealing on […]
Articles by Tim Martin
Features
I Write The Songs – Kate And Anna McGarrigle
For this month’s article in our “I Write The Songs…” series, Tim Martin steps up to tell us about the Canadian sisters who started their outstanding musical careers crafting songs for others to sing. While their […]
Album Reviews
Surge and the Swell “Offering”
The songwriting and singing never drop below excellent on a solid debut album. After a couple of years of “lockdown albums” we seem to be moving beyond them to rather more optimistic songwriting. Surge and the […]
Features
The Other Side of Me: Tim Martin takes us across the Channel to explore the delights of France Gall
If the English-speaking world thinks of her at all, France Gall is best known for winning the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with a Serge Gainsbourg song ‘Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son‘. The French sixties Ye-Ye […]
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Cowboy Junkies – “Common Disaster” 1996
If you had a penny for every break up song in the world, you would have a lot of pennies. Cowboy Junkies normally perceptive lyrics are especially on target here. “A candle burning for everything I’ve […]