Blog: lonesome music

The threat of violence is always implicit in the scrawny, wired and visceral Sons and Daughters. Their new album the repulsion box (released June 6th) is preceded by the Fall meets Nick Cave meets PJ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Now this really is beautiful. Lonesome fans will love it. I defy you to hear it and not be moved. Deadman have crafted this pearl of a song in memory of the musicians who have died over the past... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Not sure if their name is a statement of intent or budget requirement for the next album (that'll be one J200 and a nice Gretsch or two), Sweden's six figure transatlantic make a lovely sound. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

3hive have Ballboy's I lost you, But I found Country Music available with 4 other tunes Lloyd Cole would be proud to call his own. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Touching in the same way that the first Athlete album Vehicles and Animals was about a childhood half remembered first hand, half gleaned from the photographic evidence the JCBSONG (video preview) by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

and via that last link I so want to go back to Brighton to take part on this: healthy concerts - house concerts, live acoustic music in small venues [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In or near London this weekend? Fancy seeing a band in full flight, with real tunes a guitarist that would kill to be gram parsons and a singer that not only holds a tune and is in tune? May 14... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

A truly beautiful day in Vienna, and I'm only here until the end of next week. Walked in listening to the HAL album, still a stunning piece of work. Check these little beauties: Slow Down (you've... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Apollo, James Esq. purveyor of the type of Americana that warms the cockles. A couple more tracks here. No pedal steel though. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]