On a chilly spring evening at Bristol’s premier community-owned live music venue, it’s ‘Monday Funday!’ as Hillbilly Moon Explosion bring their agglomeration of rockabilly, jump blues, swing, and country music to the main room of The Exchange. The band’s provenance… Continue Reading
(Photo by Nicole Miller) In many ways, New York City is the place to be if you are an aspiring electronic dance-punk band. From the experimental synths pioneered by bands such as Silver Apples and Suicide in the late 60s… Continue Reading
As a struggling singer in the 1960s, Emmylou Harris befriended one Gram Parson amidst Washington D.C’s bustling folk scene. Soon after, in 1973 and ’74 respectively, her unique vocal talents adorned Parson’s landmark albums GP and Grievous Angel and it… Continue Reading
In the 1970s, WITCH (an acronym – or backronym – for We Intend to Cause Havoc) were Zambia’s most popular band. Blending the traditional sounds of garage rock with African rhythm and blues, the legendary group released five albums through… Continue Reading
Singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey – jet black hair, pristine dark beard and clad in crisp, baggy blue shirt – is all smiles with arms aloft at tonight’s commencement of a brief run of four UK dates before heading to the European… Continue Reading
(Photo by M. Becker) Something akin to a gifted script doctor or screenplay virtuoso in the mediums of film and television, it is the session musician who seems disproportionately unsung in the integral contributions made in adding flair and texture… Continue Reading
(Photo by Alva Le Febvre) Smerz are Norwegian pair Catharina Stoltenberg and Henreitte Motzfeldt, and have emerged from the simmering CPH scene (see Astrid Sonne, Fine et al) in recent years, leading us in last night’s show at the Lantern… Continue Reading
Though Joshua Idehen has been releasing music for upwards of 15 years, he has only achieved relative fame quite recently. Throughout the 2010’s, the British-born Nigerian poet worked with bands such as LV, Sons of Kemet, and The Comet is… Continue Reading