It sounds mega cheesy and cliche to say so, but at just 19 years old, Gabrielle Aplin has already come such a long way. Her career began by posting her own performances of covers by her favourite bands on youtube, now she is performing alongside them at some of the …
Upcoming singer songwriter Luke Sital-Singh talks us through his influences…
That’s right. I’m inspired by Jeans. Well, not exactly. David and Claire Hieatt set up HIUT Denim Co. after selling their first clothing company Howies. HIUT Denim are more than just a jeans brand – they are …
Josh Osho is the next artist to talk about what inspires his music.
There is this enchanting charm and powerfully hypnotizing effect the blues has on me. I stumbled across my first portal into the blues through Muddy Waters, the acclaimed father of the electric Chicago blues, and …
Barbarossa – namesake of James Mathé – has been releasing his own exquisite collection of songs since 2006, and we can’t quite understand why more people don’t love him. This is why he’s our BOTW – we want to scream about his brilliant talent from the rooftops for all of …
He looks like Beck, sings like Bowie and plays guitar Clapton. It’s like a snowball of the noughties’ cream of the crops, and the flame happens to reignite in Geva Alon. The Israeli blues-rock and folk singer-songwriter releases his fourth studio album titled In The Morning Light and with much …
Mike Doughty is an established American singer songwriter who just so happens to be supporting the legendary Suzanne Vega on her UK tour this month. He was in the Warner Bros-signed band Soul Coughing throughout the nineties until 2000, when the decade of decadence apparently got a bit much for …
Lynn Roberts of For Folk’s Sake fills us in on what’s been happening in her genre of expertise over the past month.
Festival season kicked off with the Great Escape last month in Brighton when everyone was talking about Django Django. Coming up this month there are tons of great …
When Lucy Rose arrived on stage at The Plug, she was greeted by a large crowd despite it being her first time in Sheffield. The pocket-sized singer-songwriter opened with ‘Middle Of The Bed’, her breakthrough single, and from then on in things got better and better.
She might be small …
Just one glance at the cover artwork and I assumed we had another Iron & Wine on our hands. Whilst this wouldn’t be a particularly bad thing, Glen’s music is much more instant. Despite its calmness and lack of great depth, there isn’t much patience required to get into it …
Yesterday, we gave you a track and video from our BOTW, Glen Hansard. We spoke to him a couple of weeks ago about Irish music culture, the plights of the singer-songwriter and his favourite new music. Read Hansard’s insightful observations below.
You grew up in Ireland. Were there any …
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