Il Sogno del Marinaio | Whelan's (Upstairs), Dublin (8pm, 4th March) | €5-6 Some dark, gravel-voiced rock featuring Mike Watt for your Monday night. Lianne La Havas | Olympia, Dublin (7:30pm, 5th March) | €21 The wonderfully talented - and not to mention, delectable - Ms La Havas asks the Olympia Is Your Love Big Enough? Mama Rosin | Grand Social, Dublin (8pm, 5th March) | €8 Swiss, banjo-led [...]
Just over a year ago, Lianne La Havas took to the streets of Paris with La Blogotheque to film a Take Away Show. The British soul singer was on the verge of releasing her Lost & Found EP, the first public offering of La Havas' songwriting. For her film with La Blogotheque, La Havas chose ... Continue reading
Lianne La Havas’ “Forget” track gets a rework from LA producer Shlohmo."Forget" is set for a release next month on Lost & Found Records and a debut LP is planned for a release...
Much buzzed 21-year-old Londoner Lianne La Havas recently released a five-song Lost and Found EP in the U.K. and Europe -- along with a free Live in L.A . EP -- in anticipation of a major label full-length due in 2012. The soulful and intimate acousto-pop that is at the heart of her music has drawn comparisons, not surprisingly, to Corinne Bailey Rae but her new single "No Room For Doubt", co-written with and featuring Willy Mason, reveals a promising new voice who can easily stand on her own. Watch the [...]

Episode 3 of How to Make It In America has dropped. We haven't gotten a chance to view it yet because you don't have cable (raises hand), or just missed the show, take a look at the stream below.

Lianne La Havas is our favorite new singer. Lianne's got in her singing just the right mixture of soul, taste, diction, restraint, and melody. That sort of appears-once-a-year mixture that makes her someone you need to keep an eye to. The soft "No Room For Doubt", which features American blues singer Willy Mason, is a gorgeous track that perfectly introduces that stunning La Havas (hushed here) vocal talent. Spin this one. Lianne La Havas - No Room For Doubt (Feat. Willy Mason) Lianne La [...]
I'm not sure what it is exactly, but all the Parisians I know seem to exude a coolness that's just not possible for us london folk. A certain je ne sais quoi, if you will. (urgh, yes I just said that...) Back in August we had an artist called Lianne La Havas perform an amazing set at Oh! Inverted World. A couple of weeks after that Lianne went to Paris and recorded a Takeaway show for the phenomenal guys at La Blogothèque . This is the beautiful result:
Il ne fut tout d'abord question que de cela : la joliesse de ce visage, la fraîcheur de ce sourire, le charme de cette voix, le plaisir enfantin que la jeune femme semble prendre à chanter dans cette Black Cab Session , dont le lien nous avait été envoyé avec une demande de Concert à emporter. Nous ne savions rien de Lianne La Havas, nous avions beau chercher, nous n'en trouvions guère plus, nous devions nous reposer sur l'insistance du label, et sur la joliesse de ce visage, sur la fraîcheur de ce sourire, le [...]