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Album: Angus Stone Broken Brights (Desert Harvest)
Saturday 14 July 2012
Flying solo again following several recordings with his sister Julia, Angus Stone delivers what may be his masterpiece in Broken Brights, an album that seamlessly inhabits the resurgent Laurel Canyon sound.
First Night: Latitude Festival, Southwold, Suffolk
Saturday 14 July 2012
Serene surroundings for an Americana feast
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Americana (Reprise)
Sunday 03 June 2012
"Americana" is everywhere, of course.
Rumer, St James' Church, London
Friday 25 May 2012
“I’m tremendously proud of this album,” Rumer demurely claims about her impending new record, Boys Don’t Cry.
Album: John Mayer, Born and Raised (Columbia)
Saturday 19 May 2012
John Mayer continues mining the California singer-songwriter vein of 2009's Battle Studies.
Album: Father John Misty, Fear Fun (Bella Union)
Sunday 29 April 2012
If you're going to quit your day job as drummer in the world's premier folk-rock band, you'd better have something special up your sleeve.
Who lives in a house like this? An unlikely INXS fan
Thursday 12 April 2012
Who lives in a house like this? There's dirty laundry all over the floor, piles of records strewn around, life drawings hanging in the bathroom and war medals displayed on the walls. Why, it's Pete Doherty, of course, the free-spirited scamp. In a video recorded for NME's website, the 33-year-old musician gives viewers a tour of his cramped Paris apartment.
Festival Guide 2012: Hard Rock Calling - 'I had a few sleepless nights'
Friday 30 March 2012
Toby Leighton-Pope, 35, is vice president of music for Live Nation. He's been promoting Hard Rock Calling since it began seven years ago
My Fantasy Band: Christian Zucconi, Grouplove
Friday 17 February 2012
Drums - Picasso
I've always wondered what he could do with a pair of sticks.
Sir Paul McCartney unveils Hollywood star
Friday 10 February 2012
Sir Paul McCartney paid tribute to the other "three boys" in the Beatles as he unveiled his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Jonathan Wilson, The Scala, London
Wednesday 01 February 2012
“Love it is an apple core, before the fruit was beautiful, now it is a circle, life and death a circle, the circle is a cadence,” Jonathan Wilson maintains on the languid hippie anthem “Gentle Spirit”. You dig? He digs us. He tells us so.
The Last Waltz (U)
Friday 02 December 2011
Scorsese shot this film of the The Band's farewell gig at the San Francisco Wonderland in 1976 while he was still working on New York, New York, a very different sort of musical.
Album: Neil Young International Harvesters, A Treasure (Reprise)
Friday 17 June 2011
Featuring concert recordings from his 1984-5 tour, this shows that even while his studio releases were adrift in genre-hopping chaos, Neil Young could always cut the mustard with a crack band behind him – in this case, a star-studded country ensemble of Spooner Oldham on piano, Ben Keith on pedal steel, and the fiddler Rufus Thibodeaux adding a cajun drive.
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