
Following the announcement of her involvement with January's 'Way To Blue' series of concerts celebrating Nick Drake's music ; Vashti Bunyan will be playing six UK headline dates in April and May. She is currently working on a new album, the follow up to 2005's long- awaited 'Lookaftering' with Andy Cabic of Vetiver tipped for the producer's chair. The spring tour starts off in April in Bristol and wraps up at Bracknell's beautiful South Hill Park Arts Centre. Dates for the January gigs and Spring tour here: [...]

' Tonight , Matthew, I'm going to be ..... " Is Nick Drake still trendy? Mind a few years back when Brad Pitt and the like started declaring their love for the cult folk song writer, that's all passed by now right? Hopefully as there is nothing worse than having to listen to celebrities banging on about a musician they've 'discovered', it can really kill the music for me, it's like finding the moment when the muppets in your work suddenly know all about that [...]

The most-read 2009 stories so far have been: 1. NME Awards 2010 2. Mp3 download: Los Campesinos 3. RIP: Taylor Mitchell 4. Neil Young live at Glastonbury 5. Glastonbury 2009: From the sofa 6. Panic At The Disco split 7. Liveblog: Eurovision 2009 8. George Sampson confuses Simon Cowell with Fairy Godmother 9. Glastonbury 2010 ticket update 10. Little Boots and The Saturdays don't row; 3AM say they do [...]
krystle warren - my third love krystle warren - in between days (cure cover) krystle warren - on that first day of autumn [an old bio: Krystle Warren is a singer/songwriter/poet who stems from the song stylings of the greats who have come before. A glimmer of light as to what's ahead. In short: a vintage clothed prophet with a guitar strapped against her back spreading the word of an age passed tradition that is simply Real. Music. After buying her [...]

Gang of Four, New York City, 1981 (c) Laura Levine The second episode of Later...with Jools Holland continues tomorrow and Friday on BBC2 with another six diverse musical acts. The one I'm most looking forward to seeing is Leeds post-punk band, Gang of Four . They haven't released too much stuff over the last couple of decades and only singer Jon King and guitarist Andy Gill remain from the original line-up. They'll be playing songs from their debut, Entertainment! (1979), an album that would surely have been nominated for [...]

Awdio est le premier réseau web 100% Live permettant d'écouter gratuitement en temps-réel les clubs et salles de concert du monde entier : À la différence des web radios qui diffusent des playlists pré-enregistrées, Awdio fait le tour du monde des lieux d'exception avec son équipe d'ingénieurs et connecte jour après jour des clubs et des salles de qualité sur toute la planète, de la Nouvelle-Zélande au Brésil en passant par la Chine, l'Inde, l'Europe, les Etats-Unis, etc. Co-fondée en 2007 par Vittorio Strigari et le designer Ora-ïto , cette jeune start-up [...]

"...and what did you do then, Uncle Tom" "Well, I hung around outside the French Institute and tried not to look like a pervert who was there solely to check out Gallic girls who I was old enough (theoretically) to be teaching. Eurodisco pounded in the background as the sun went down, and tanned youngsters who were loitering around, taking long drags of cigarettes with exotic names. Gauloise, Gitanes. The air grew colder as I watched the record store man pack up. A barbeque pitched up white grey smoke into the pinks sky, as [...]
Tu es mélomane, féru de musique live et fan de l'émission de Manu Katché ? Tu as toujours rêvé d'assister à l'enregistrement de l'émission musicale la plus prestigieuse du P.A.F. ? Problème, les missions en RER/Métro jusqu'aux plateaux de Boulogne Billancourt te rebutent, tout comme les interminables files d'attentes à l'entrée des studios. Qu'à cela ne tienne. Si tu ne viens pas à Manu, c'est Manu qui viendra à toi, via ta connexion ADSL. Mieux qu'un pass V.I.P, c'est confortablement assis(e) dans ton canapé que tu assisteras, en te connectant demain soir à partir de 20H30 sur le [...]

On décide de bien s'entourer pour un spleen persistant: krystle warren & the faculty -chelsea piers- patrick watson -bird bird in a small cage- jeffrey lewis & the junkyard -roll bus roll- sophie hunger -teenage spirit- school of seven bells -wired for light- au revoir simone -take me as i am- jeffrey lewis & the junkyard -broken broken heart-
Krystle Warren his a singer/songwriter hailing from Kansas City, and newly signed to French independant label Because Music. She has just released her debut album, " Circles ", recorded in the famous New-York based Electric Lady Studios, with Grammy Award winning engineer Russell Elevado ( D'Angelo , Roy Hargrove , Keziah Jones ). You can stream an acoustic video performance of her latest single " My Third Love [...]
Krystle Warren : Keeping It Real . In the March issue of Self , curly country-pop singer Taylor Swift discusses how she gets source material for potential kiss-off tunes : "If you don't want me to write bad songs about you, then don't do bad things," she tells the magazine. Tell us more, Taylor. How much is too much of an over-share? "I don't think honesty is ever something you should regret," Swift continued. "I figure if I'm going to cover things up and try to hide the way I [...]