Brendan Benson has the enviable position of being the other front man in the Raconteurs who shares the stage with Jack White, and the rhythm section of Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler. He shares half the vocals, plays guitar and somehow fades into the shadows every-time White steps to the microphone, or leans into one…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 8 May 2020. That’s How Rumors Get Started is the new release from Margo Price. The album of ten original songs commits her live shows to record for the very first time. Co-produced by Margo and longtime friend Sturgill…
In October 2002, the US districts of Maryland, Colombia and Virginia were under attack. Driveby sniper shootings were occurring in all sorts of locations – schools, petrol stations, convenience stores, front yards. Nowhere was safe. The FBI and state police scrambled all available to deal with the random attacks and initial thoughts as to who…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 1 May 2020. Damien Jurado’s new album What’s New, Tomboy? is now out on Mama Bird Recording co. and Loose Music. The album marks his second for the labels. Where last year’s In the Shape of a Storm stripped…
Since the band’s beginnings in 1988, founder and consistent member John Andrew Fredrick has now written and released eighteen The Black Watch albums; with Brilliant Failures being the latest. That’s a very long resume of indie rock for a band that still probably will be new to most. Well, maybe that will change if you…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 24 April 2020. Following acclaimed recordings of concertos by Dvořák and Shostakovich, the Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing returns to her roots with Grieg: The Violin Sonatas. She’s joined by Simon Trpčeski at the piano. Each of Edvard Grieg’s violin…
Migration Stories is the 10th solo album from M. Ward. So it’s unlikely anyone who’s encountered his music over the recent decades is expecting any surprises. In the brief label bio, Ward describes this collection of Migration Stories as “characters in a dream,” which is also a way of describing the hazy contours and soft…
For those of us who fondly remember shoving disc after disc into our car CD players for company on our long drives, the audio book has certainly come a long way. From the first days of single voice actors narrating entire novels, the audio book has evolved into an aural universe complete with full musical…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 17 April 2020. Roots artist The White Buffalo – real name Jake Smith – has just released his long-awaited sixth studio album, On The Widow’s Walk.The album is a loosely linked collection of dark thrills produced by two-time Grammy…
It’s been long enough since the 2016 EP Future Present Past (which was little more than a solid single with a couple of extra B-sides) to have concluded that the return of The Strokes at the top of their game on a full-length release was not in the books. With long-standing stories in the press…
