Author: Admin
Photo credit: Jason QuigleyWell that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from case/lang/veirs who have this week shared their cover of Patti Smith’s track People Have The Power which sadly carries as meaningful a message today as it did during the political upheaval ten years ago when this album was first released.The supergroup recently announced the 10th anniversary edition of their 2016 album, case/lang/veirs, set to be released on 4th September via Anti- Records. Along with this announcement, they also shared a previously-unreleased track Accidental Tattoo. The edition features 12…
Hastings’ finest celebrates his blessed musical life in typically classy fashion.Jason McNiff is such a regular on these pages that the usual artist background story that accompanies a new album seems surplus to requirements here. Firmly established in Hastings since 2019, his regular Friday Sundowner sessions, with a myriad of guests from around the world, have become the stuff of legend.For Ten Blue Songs though, it is his Saturday Coffee House Sessions, featuring Matt Armstrong on double bass, alongside local players including Richard Moore (violin) and Bjorn Dahlberg (clarinet) that inspires the album. McNiff’s meticulous guitar work is as present…
Credit: Rob BlackhamLondon-based singer-songwriter Jack Browning will release his sophomore album, Painted Skies, on September 16th via Too Fine Records. The twelve-song collection follows Browning’s signing to the Nashville label earlier this year and arrives after two years of growing momentum on both sides of the Atlantic. Produced by Browning and Dan Lucas and recorded at The Joplin House in Kent, it deliberately allows the songs to retain the immediacy and character of the room in which they were recorded. Outside of music, Browning has also earned recognition as a fine artist. His paintings have been exhibited internationally, including at…
Correspondent and promoter Oliver Gray recommends an attractive festival that will entertain rather than overwhelm. It’s called Found, and it takes place this August Bank Holiday and is attracting some very classy acts indeed. “The band and I are very much looking forward to finding ourselves at the Found Festival this summer. We love how you Brits throw a party.” So says one James Felice, and Kate Stables of This Is The Kit adds her thoughts, “I can’t wait to head to Found festival this August. It’s such a decent festival run by decent folks who are genuinely passionate about…
Photo by SandyMacStop Draggin’ My Heart Aroundis a Tom Petty and Mike Campbell composition originally earmarked for the Heartbreakers’Hard Promisesalbum.The fact that a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers track ended up featuring on the Stevie Nicks debut solo album Bella Donna was largely due to Jimmy Iovine, producer on both albums. Campbell recalls that when working on the Heartbreakers album Iovine suggested that the song may play better coming from a female perspective and asked Petty if Nicks could try it. “We cut the track as a Heartbreakers record and when she decided to do it we used that track,…
The next Americana Story comes from one of our own. Rick Bayles escaped the UK to live in the Dordogne region of France, and from there he reports back through his monthly Vox Continental column, sharing americana goings on in mainland Europe. In creating the cover image, he also shared with us that ChatGPT is known as ‘Cat, I have farted’ in France.The Little Shop Of Hollersby Rick BaylesIt all started with Kurt Stormsinger feeling a little perplexed. Kurt never felt perplexed. John Barrowclough, or ‘Johnny’, as his Mum still called him, had often been more than a bit discombobulated,…
Alta Zuma: The Rosenbergs EP(Precious Recordings of London)7″ / DL / StreamingBuy Here Available 31st JulyAlta Zuma, featuring members of C86 luminaries The Bodines and The Waltones have released their debut 7″ vinyl EP, The Rosenbergs, via the mighty Precious Recordings of London.Nick Godfrey’s Precious Recordings of London have done it again, as well as continuing to release classic BBC Sessions from the likes of The Soup Dragons, Prolapse, The Flaming Stars and The Primevals they are equally focussing on quality new material from more seasoned artists. Whilst some, such as Helen Love (Helen Love being the artist and the…
Inspired by her own first experience of heartbreak, “Red Velvet” explores the bittersweet reality of becoming strangers with someone who once meant everything. Small everyday reminders, from favourite foods to familiar places, become symbols of a love that’s faded, while the song reflects on memory, regret and the tendency to romanticise the past. Since returning to the UK from a tennis scholarship in the US to pursue music full time, Essence has steadily built a reputation for emotionally rich songwriting, earning praise from artists including Rachel Chinouriri, Mahalia, SZA, Troye Sivan and Demi Lovato. Fresh from supporting the likes of…
SBTV is marking its 20th anniversary with its biggest celebration yet, taking over London’s O2 on 11 November for a landmark event honouring the legacy of founder Jamal Edwards MBE. Organised in partnership with Ernest Promotions and supporting the Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust, the one night only show will bring together some of the artists who helped define the platform alongside newer names inspired by the path Jamal created, celebrating two decades of one of the UK’s most influential music platforms.The first wave of artists already promises a huge night, with Wiley, Chip, Lady Leshurr, Big Narstie, Dappy, Tinchy…
Slowdive ended and Mojave 3 began in Neil Halstead’s flat in Acton. In 1994 he crafted most of the former band’s Pygmalion in his room, working around the schedules of his housemates to create sample-based soundscapes that alienated their label. Creation Records promptly dropped the band around the time the album was released, although half the group had already split. By then, the remaining players – Halstead, Rachel Goswell and Ian McCutcheon – were holed up at Halstead’s to record demos that were very different from anything they’d ever done. Atmosphere and mood were still important, but the music was…
This review was originally published before Simon revealed her Parkinson’s diagnosis As unlikely as it sounds, Carly Simon’s first paid gig was singing jingles for her uncle’s company: one of the pre-eminent singer-songwriters of a generation not short on pre-eminent singer-songwriters cutting her teeth on adverts for cold cream, household mops and local banks. Fast forward a few years and she’s winning her first Grammy for Best New Artist with a debut single, “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”, which dared to question the preferred currency of popular music: love and romance. Jac Holzman, initially her sole…
There is a distinct, prickly sensation that washes over a film editor when the entire internet appears to be spinning a vast web of enthusiasm for a movie he has not yet had the privilege to watch. As someone who has unashamedly championed Tom Holland’s tenure as Peter Parker, from his wide-eyed debut in Civil War right through to the multiversal heartbreak of No Way Home, I am currently caught in a sticky situation. My calendar has conspired against me, keeping me glued to my desk while audiences and critics nationwide rush to cinemas to witness Spider-Man: Brand New Day.…