24th January 2015 Over four years since the release of their debut album October, Looking South, Bristol quintet The Lasting Days marked the launch of follow up album We Simplify with a celebratory Saturday night of live music at the… Continue Reading
Band Bio: Musicband of course. Bruce Springsteen if he was a catfish. Real workingman’s fish shit. The Bass. Formed in 2008 in Western Australia, psychadelic rockers Pond started out as something of a freewheeling entity, constructed by founders Nick Allbrook,… Continue Reading
Track of the Week Lnrdcroy – ‘Telegraph of Love’ Lnrdcroy’s first album Much Less Normal was released on cassette last year and is now getting re-released on vinyl. My favourite track is ‘Telegraphy my Love’. The whole album is fantastic!… Continue Reading
22nd January 2015 Music is possibly the greatest form of escapism that we possess. It allows us a brief release from whatever reality we are confronted with, and transports us to wherever it may care to take us. So while a bitter winter… Continue Reading
Song: Thunder RoadArtist: Bruce SpringsteenYear: 1975 With modest sales from his first two albums and under pressure from Columbia Records to deliver a record that would produce a greater commercial impact, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’ kicked the doors wide open… Continue Reading
20th January 2015 Ahead of their album launch at Mr Wolfs (see our review of We Simplify), we checked in with Bristol-based The Lasting Days to chat about the music scene in this fair city. You’re launching your new (and… Continue Reading
19th January 2014 Vancouver-based Dan Mangan has been plying his singer-songwriter trade for some time now. Releasing his first full-length Postcards & Daydreaming in 2005, it wasn’t until 2009’s Nice, Nice, Very Nice (a title taken from Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle) that his melancholic music… Continue Reading
16th January 2015 Pleasingly for a man who deals in chamber folk with a modern hue, Duotone, the alias of Barney Morse-Brown, has an appearance entirely fitting with a contemporary folkster. Long in beard and sharp in thread, he could… Continue Reading