Posts by Month: January 2014

Nizlopi

Review: Nizlopi : Live review

Nizlopi

 

Being a singer-songwriter is hard. It’s just you, your guitar and your self-penned songs in front of the audience. There’s no band-mates to share the stage with and if the audience aren’t tuned in to your witty lyrics, they can get lost very quickly.

It wasn’t an easy warm … Read on

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adam green

Gig: Adam Green

adam green

 

Adam Green (born May 28, 1981 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American singer-songwriter.

Green attended Emerson College briefly in 1998 before leaving to concentrate on his music, going on to co-found the anti folk group The Moldy Peaches with Kimya Dawson. In 2004 The Moldy Peaches … Read on

Deer-Tick

Gig: Deer Tick

Deer-Tick

 

Deer Tick’s  UK and Ireland dates follow the release of the eagerly anticipated new album, Negativity – which was released on September 30 2013 via Partisan Records. Negativity, which Classic Rock calls “soulful Americana with a bittersweet backstory” and Uncut Magazine states “spurts gloriously in all directions”, marks Deer … Read on

nathaniel rateliff

Gig: Nathaniel Rateliff

nathaniel rateliff

 

While recording In Memory of Loss, Rateliff lived in Chicago, working with producer Brian Deck to craft the nuances: mournful harmonica on “You Should’ve Seen the Other Guy,” the ominous organ of “Longing and Losing,” propulsive bass drum on “Early Spring Till.” Rateliff’s Rounder debut is rooted in a … Read on

connan-mockasin

Gig: Connan Mockasin

connan-mockasin

 

Connan Mockasin has the kind of deliciously off-kilter and gloriously idiosyncratic worldview that rapidly proves addictive. Once you’ve heard it, you can’t help but wish to go back for more. On his rather unusual childhood activities: “when I was really young my mum got me a welder and just … Read on

i like trains

Gig: I Like Trains

i like trains

 

Over 10 years, from their beginnings dressed as armband-wearing train conductors, through their re-telling of some of western history’s most idiosyncratically bleak tales of human interest, to their realisation of humanity lying prostrate at the hands of environmental and technological factors far greater than us; I Like Trains have … Read on