Rewind – The World’s Biggest 80s Festival returns for its fifth year from Friday 16th August – Sunday 18th August at Temple Island Meadows, Henley-on-Thames. Tickets are on sale now. Full details about ticket outlets and prices are available from the official Rewind website – www.rewindfestival.com. Rewind attracts 40,000 festival-goers and has sold out in…
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and singer-songwriter Tift Merritt join forces for the first time on NIGHT, a unique collaboration uniting folk, rock and classical worlds, exploring common terrain and uncovering new musical landscapes. Available on March 18h 2013, NIGHT was recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York by Grammy-winning producers Adam Abeshouse…
Ra Ra Riot have announced the release date for their third album Beta Love as March 18th for the UK on Barsuk Records. The album marks the band’s first outing as a four piece with members Wes Miles on vocals, Milo Bonacci on guitar, Mathieu Santos on bass and Rebecca Zeller on violin forming the…
When Syd Arthur emerged in 2012 with their debut, self-recorded, self produced, self released album On An On, it didn’t take long for them to rocket to critical acclaim. Hailed as natural successors to Canterbury’s famous folk-prog sound, they not only connected with fans of Caravan, Soft Machine and Gong, but with fans of contemporary…
John Wheeler “Un-American Gothic” February 4th on Cooking Vinyl ‘This straight debut from [Hayseed Dixie] front man is a welcome diversion – Uncut ‘An album of mature acoustic material’ – Classic Rock ‘While this can be seen as Wheeler’s ‘serious’ album that’s not to say it’s devoid of fun […] his wry lyrics and sharp…
Richard Thompson has been described as one of the Top 20 guitarists of all time. He’s a songwriter as well as a guitarist, and has written songs that have been performed by an amazing range of stars including Bonnie Raitt, Robert Plant, Sandy Denny, Elvis Costello, David Gilmour, REM and many more. He’s won an…
Onward Chariots was formed by Ben Morss, a multi-instrumentalist. He’s recruited a number of other musicians to join him, and the result is an indie-pop album with a whole load of other influences thrown into the mix. The sound is made more varied by the range of instruments used which incluude electronics, Strings, Oboe, Clarinet,…
Twenty years in the making, the Norwegian prog ensemble Farmers Market remains as equally musically complex as they are critically acclaimed. Following their 2008 outing “Surfin’ USSR” (on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings), the new recordings on “Slav to the Rhythm” have been released by the Oslo-based label Division Records to rave reviews in Norway, and…
FAUSTUS – Broken Down Gentlemen 11th March – Navigator Records The award winning SUPER-GROUP cement their return with BRAND NEW album and tour – ‘BROKEN DOWN GENTLEMEN’ An inspired collection of some of the earthiest songs in the folk cannon ‘Frill-free folk music, superbly and tastefully performed . . . a folk essential’ **** Sunday…
IAN ANDERSON TO BRING HIS THICK AS A BRICK TOUR TO THE LEGENDARY ROYAL ALBERT HALL After the enormous success of his 2012 UK tour, Ian Anderson is back for a very special one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall on 30th June; Thick as a Brick returns ‘home’ to the prestigious London venue after…
JETTBLACK ADD TWO MORE HEADLINE SHOWS TO THEIR APRIL 2013 UK CO-HEADLINE TOUR WITH CRASH DIET… UK rockers, Jettblack, have added a further two headline shows to their co-headline April UK tour with Swedish sleaze masters, Crash Diet; the first of the new headline dates will take place on April 19th at Cardiff’s Bogiez, followed…
UK rockers, The Treatment, will take their very first trip to Japanese shores for an appearance at Ozzfest 2013. The festival takes place over two days, (May 11th & May 12th) and sees Slipknot & Black Sabbath headlining across the weekend. Meanwhile, back in the UK, The Treatment will guest with ex-G n’R & Velvet…