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Robbie Boyd : Bush Hall

23/07/2013

Odes of a life unmarred by complication or dissonance. Robbie Boyd live....

Jack Cheshire : Interview

05/07/2013

'I've always found it difficult to describe my music to people, but psychedelic is definitely something I aspire to.' Jack Cheshire talks to Trebuchet....

Henry Diltz Interview [Part 2]

21/06/2013

It was all peace and love; let the universe decide, do it the right way. That’s the way life should be and maybe it will....

Silent Old Mtns : Naked Raccoon [Interview]

19/06/2013

I don't think anyone has heard these tracks outside of the band, except maybe my Dad...

Henry Diltz, Music Photographer [Interview]

14/06/2013

I photograph t-shirts and I photograph tattoos and I photograph graffiti and people giving the peace sign and people giving the finger. David Crosby was always giving me the finger....

Steeleye Span to Play Cambridge

12/06/2013

Steeleye Span to Play Cambridge Folk Festival 27th July 2013...

Legends of the Canyon : UK Release

20/05/2013

Legends of the Canyon tracks the Laurel Canyon scene of the early 1970s by official photographer to Crosby, Stills and Nash...

Tubular Bells for Two

14/05/2013

Their idea, conceived round a fire with a few glasses of wine, was to reproduce Tubular Bells on two guitars...

Final Line-Up Cambridge Folk Festival 2013

23/04/2013

After last years amazing festival - we can now announce the final line up for the Cambridge Folk Festival 2013. ...

Apples & Eve [Live]

03/04/2013

Apples & Eve :close your eyes and they could be opening for Edith Piaf framed by a velvet curtain while the audience drink pink champagne and blow smoke rings...

Aidan Baker : Already Drowning

28/03/2013

seven portraits of acoustic melancholy, distorted love and gothic eroticism...

Loitered Lens : Apples & Eve

24/03/2013

Sweeping folk, wheezing accordion, and grand chanson stage theatrics. Apples & Eve at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. Photos....

Graham Nash : Life on the Road

20/03/2013

Photographic Exhibiton : Graham Nash | Life on the Road. 3rd April – 26th May 2013 - Proud Galleries Camden...

Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal

14/03/2013

Mechanisms for the reordering of memory and forward living. Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal. Released 4th March on Kranky ...

Reel Iraq Festival

08/03/2013

Reel Festivals focus on Iraq as the theme and subject for their March event, on the tenth anniversary of the UK & US military invasion of the country....

The Jar Family : Interview

07/03/2013

'it's only really folk inasmuch as The Jar Family is music for the common man by the common man - and we are quite common'...

Free Song : Anna Lena

27/02/2013

Anna Lena & the Orchids will release her self-titled, debut EP on March 21st 2013....

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Her Majesty’s Theatre

13/02/2013

Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Performing Push the Sky Away. Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. Feb 10th 2013...

Brythonic Gyrations

13/02/2013

I see Breton dances as a kind of bhajan. They are about losing yourself to something greater. We forget the Dionysian at our peril....

Evolution of a Classic [Folk Music]

23/01/2013

The sipsi is a small reedpipe, played using circular breathing, with a wild and thrilling sound. I was immediately captivated by the lumpy nine-time rhythms and mind-boggling technique....

Nick Cave News: New Album, Intimate Tour.

15/01/2013

Ahead of the latest 2013 release 'Push the Sky Away' Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will perform in very atmospheric venues in London, Paris, Berlin and LA....

Benoit Pioulard new album March 4th

10/01/2013

Hymnal is the fourth kranky album by Thomas Meluch under his musical alias Benoit Pioulard, following Précis (2006), Temper (2008) and Lasted (2010). It was written and recorded throughout a year...

Steve Harley: HMV Forum [Live]

02/01/2013

His songs were moderately touching but not heart stopping. The middle-aged faithful in the all-seated audience appreciated the old songs and were quietly appreciative rather than dancing in the...

Apples & Eve: Dionysus

23/11/2012

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

The Tribes of Britain

21/11/2012

To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. ...

Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

20/11/2012

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

Ben Caplan [Live]

19/11/2012

Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s...

Perhaps Contraption:Interview

16/11/2012

When I play music, and connect with other musicians, I want to be transported away from the tripe the world churns up....

Secret Garden Party reveals 2013 Theme

14/11/2012

This year the Secret Garden will be asking all Gardeners to explore their affinity to the supernatural, the inexplicable and the irrational… to indulge the tussle between the left brain's sober...