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Ethno World at Tandem Folk Festival

27/05/2015

Ethno World returns to the UK to host one of their globally renowned music camps ...

Parting the Veil of Sylvanian Fantasy [Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands]

17/05/2015

Bright's voice, if a touch brittle, is faultless in pitch, soaring in keening arabesques through what must (surely) be the entire range of anguish...

Jam in the middle of Wasp Season. Live Metal [Skyforger]

12/05/2015

Meanwhile, the other venue in the side street had a light tank parked outside it. This was the metaller equivalent of a large open jar of jam in the middle of Wasp Season....

His Hobo Cabaret [Seasick Steve]

23/04/2015

The downhome drawl, the dungarees, the hobo stories, the homemade instruments. Seasick Steve Live @ Eventim Apollo, London. April 14th 2015....

Searching for the Great American Album [JKutchma]

16/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is eternal credence in the idea of “the great American novel”. The essential capturing of American culture – its...

Loitered Lens : Luke Haines

08/02/2015

Photos of Luke Haines at Islington Assembly Halls, January 2015...

Monthly Metal Mixup [Venom, Wells Valley, Olam EIn Sof]

03/02/2015

It may not be ground-breaking but it’s great fun and it doesn’t put a foot wrong...

I’m just a primate falling in love (Diagrams)

02/02/2015

I couldn't quite say : 'Oh yeah I had a master plan and it all turned out exactly how I wanted!'....

Loitered Lens : Robbie Boyd

12/12/2014

Big hook folk-pop, Robbie Boyd at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, December 10th. Photos....

Nick Harper : Interview

28/11/2014

'no two people hear music or even see the world in the same way, and it’s your vision that counts for you in the end' ...

IntO the mOOn : Passing Clouds [Live]

03/10/2014

A self-possessed alternative gypsy rock band whose lyrics resound with those who want to say something but don’t quite know how to say it....

Cambridge Folk Festival

10/08/2014

Cambridge Folk Festival has a fete-like atmosphere that swells and sweats music from every pore...

Burning Toward the Light (Lloyd Yates)

03/06/2014

Our music comes from what we like. We create our sound from what we like. Lloyd Yates...

On Twitter, Birdsong and Bards

08/05/2014

The Mistle Thrush reminds us not to be beguiled by outward display but to see through to what, if anything, lies beneath....

A picture of Les Claypool's Duo De Twang album

Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang : Four Foot Shack

17/03/2014

There will be someone out there, bored by the usual, willing to listen to a bluegrass barn-dance inspired acoustic record that contains covers of the Bee Gees and Alice in Chains....

A picture of current 93 by Karolina Urbiniak

Current 93 : Union Chapel

21/02/2014

The reverence that fires culture and the reverence that inspires the stillness and coolness of religion are hard to tease apart in the world of Current 93...

Drawing Inspiration

07/01/2014

Symbols don't mean anything; rather they are fecund triggers to the imagination that allow meaning to arise through their contemplation....

A picture of Valerie June by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : Valerie June

22/12/2013

'incredible musicianship, vocal talent, and arresting looks' Valerie June in concert....

Valerie June : Islington Assembly Hall

06/12/2013

She picked and plucked guitar, uke’ and banjo; stamped her strappy shoed feet, and embodied the soul, folk, blues, gospel, and bluegrass spirits of the past hundred years. Valerie June, live....

A picture of the Ben Miller Band by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : The Ben Miller Band

01/12/2013

Quite simply an absolute must see band. The only thing missing was moonshine in a mason jar at the merch stall. Plus: Gimli squeezes out a crusty one....

Anna Calvi : One Breath

07/10/2013

As with all material on this sublime record, Calvi thrashes her inspirations into unique statements....

A picture of We Banjo 3 by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : We Banjo 3

29/09/2013

When he sang, “We all need more banjos in this world,” everyone in the tent was united in their agreement. ...

The Meat Puppets [Live]

22/09/2013

Trippy and meandering as the hastily recorded studio version of themselves, live, the Meat Puppets just about delivered the goods musically. ...

A photo of Douglas Dare by Dusan Kacan, Erased Tapes, singer

Douglas Dare : Seven Hours [EP]

12/09/2013

Devoid of histrionics, of 'emotional' treatments, and of cloying sentimentality. Dare's presentation of the songs is instead factual, crisp and resigned....

Loitered Lens : Valerie June

08/09/2013

Loitered Lens, fine photos. The subject: Valerie June. Caught here at the Cambridge Folk Festival 2013...

Lloyd Yates : Bring Back The Life

17/08/2013

'Don’t be concerned about getting that Mumford feeling. There is real poetry on this disc' ...

A picture of Simon Friend from The Levellers

The Levellers (Simon Friend) : Interview

11/08/2013

'Certainly I think we’ve been ignored. Or not even ignored – shunned' - Simon Friend of The Levellers makes up for some lost media attention. ...

Randall Dunn Interview

04/08/2013

I don't think that the world has become a horrible place. I think that we should be more aware of now rather than some idea of the future. ...

Cambridge Folk Festival 2013: Review

02/08/2013

Beards and flat caps are very much the exception rather than the rule at the Cambridge Folk Festival...

It's not a full-band recording, but neither is it completely stripped-down and minimalist. The dominant instrumental sounds are acoustic guitar and programmed rhythms, but there's a lot else in the...

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