New music
Hailey Tuck, Rich Mix review - delightful but wobblyWednesday, 16 May 2018
At the age of 18, Texan jazz singer Hailey Tuck cashed in her college fund for a one-way plane ticket. leaving a military boarding school in Texas for the Voltaire district of Paris, to immerse herself in jazz clubs and vintage markets. Nearly a... Read more... |
CD: Ray LaMontagne - Part of the LightWednesday, 16 May 2018
Ray LaMontagne is a versatile artist who for years has been navigating the territory between hard rock and contemporary folk. His voice can be soft and gentle and yet also filled on occasion with something close to aggression. He has a firm grasp of... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Yung WuSunday, 13 May 2018
When Crazy Rhythms, the ever-fabulous first album by New Jersey’s Feelies was issued in April 1980 it seemed to have little local context. Although the band’s fidgetiness suggested a kinship with Talking Heads and there were a clear nods to The... Read more... |
CD: Brad Mehldau Trio - Seymour Reads the Constitution!Sunday, 13 May 2018
From Bach to the Beach Boys in three months. Though the right side of 50, pianist and bandleader Brad Mehldau has released 35 albums in over 25 years. In the Nineties, as a twenty-something, he recorded a five-volume series of albums with the title... Read more... |
CD: Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + CasinoSaturday, 12 May 2018
Arctic Monkeys are the great British guitar band of the 21st century so far. Only now they’re not. For the last couple of albums, Sheffield’s ever-smart rock four-piece have pushed their innate indie guitar sound further and further into 21st pop... Read more... |
Problem in Brighton, Brighton Festival review - comic but patchy rock showFriday, 11 May 2018
Problem is Brighton is down in the Festival programme as an “alt-rock/pop pantomime”, with actors involved and the inference it’s some sort of musical featuring “instruments specially created by David Shrigley for the performance”. This turns out to... Read more... |
CD: Ryley Walker - Deafman GlanceFriday, 11 May 2018
As it was with his last album Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, it’s impossible to listen to Ryley Walker without comparisons to John Martyn and Tim Buckley – the jazz-infused, non-linear Buckley of Lorca – springing to mind. But this time round,... Read more... |
CD: Ry Cooder - The Prodigal SonThursday, 10 May 2018
Ry Cooder is not only one of the greatest American guitarists of his time, a virtuoso who uses his technical mastery to make music with extraordinary soul, but he also has his heart firmly in the right place. On this new album, a close collaboration... Read more... |
CD: Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really FeelWednesday, 09 May 2018
If her collaborations with other musicians is anything to go by, Courtney Barnett’s star has definitely been on the rise since the release of her wonderfully titled 2015 debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. Last year... Read more... |
Win a Luxury Weekend for Two to celebrate Brighton Festival!Tuesday, 08 May 2018
Brighton Festival is the UK’s leading annual celebration of the arts, with events taking place in venues both familiar and unusual across Brighton & Hove for three weeks every May. This year, the Festival boasts an eclectic line-up spanning... Read more... |
Pinkshinyultrablast, Band on the Wall, Manchester - glitch-pop madness from Russia’s finestMonday, 07 May 2018
Pinkshinyultrablast might be a long way from their hometown of St Petersburg, but in recent years they’ve built themselves up in England as one of the more bizarre and original bands in today’s psych/shoegaze revival, and on the day their third... Read more... |
CD: RSO - Radio Free AmericaMonday, 07 May 2018
RSO are a duo made up of ex-Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora and Australian guitar-shredder and present member of Alice Cooper’s band, Orianthi Panagaris – a couple who have decided to celebrate their relationship in song with what can only be... Read more... |
