BLACK FRIDAY 2023 2 LP 20–track collection for BLACK FRIDAY 2023 includes Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band covering Sixto Rodriguez, Iggy Pop & Zig Zags performing a Betty Davis classic, Ethan & Maya Hawke interpreting Willie Nelson, and Angel Olsen paying homage to Karen Dalton. Double LP pressed on special limited edition ‘Smash […]
Because Hold, Jack Tatum’s fifth album under the moniker Wild Nothing, was writ- ten in the aftermath of new parenthood during the pandemic, it was probably in- evitable that it would be searching and existential music. But during the recording process, the artist known for synth-pop tastefulness used it as an opportunity to reach for […]
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2 sees the Nashville-based musician step further from the pedal steel and towards centre stage. Released on the evergreen Full Time Hobby label on 14th April 2023, this new collection of tracks is a kaleidoscopic collection of folk, jazz, and pop, cut though with immaculately-rendered songwriting. Romford to Nashville is hardly […]
NOW ALSO ON CD. (VINYL REMAINS AN RSD 2024 RELEASE) Features *newly recorded* covers from Keith Richards, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Rufus Wainwright, Lucinda Williams, Maxim Ludwig & Angel Olsen, Rickie Lee Jones, Mary Gauthier, Bobby Rush, Automatic, The Afghan Whigs, and Rosanne Cash, and Brogan Bentley (CD Bonus Track) Booklet features liner notes […]
2 LP + 2 X 7″ 5/5 REVIEW AND FEATURE IN MOJO : “OUTTAKES AND LIVE TRACKS, ESSENTIAL FOR DEVOTEES, ROUND OUT VARIOUS EDITIONS. DALTON LOPES LIKE AN ALLEY CAT ON PAL FRED NEILS BLUES ON THE CEILING FROM MONTREUX ‘71 – BEWITCHING, UNBOTHERED. 5/5 BOXED REVIEW IN SHINDIG! “IN MY OWN TIME PLACES HER […]
My vision was big, says Brighton-based singer Macve of the road to her second album. I knew I wanted to do something more expansive than my first record. With reach, feeling, storytelling power and a stop-you-dead voice, Macve sizes up to that mission boldly on Not The Girl. Following on from the rootsy saloon-noir conviction […]
The latest album from Australian singer/songwriter Grace Cummings,?Ramona?is a work of raw truth rendered in its most?beautiful?form. In a departure from the self-produced approach of her 2019 debut?Refuge Cove?and its 2022 follow-up?Storm Queen—the Melbourne-based artist worked with producer Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price) and dreamed up a lavishly orchestrated sound that […]
A few years ago, Angel Olsen quietly formed somethingscosmic, a new imprint and a home for Olsen to have “the flexibility to release when and how I want to with the help from my longtime partners at Jagjaguwar.” Somethingscosmic’s second release, ‘Cosmic Waves Volume 1’ is a compilation reimagined as a dialogue; side A features […]
