Single of the Week! Trembling Bells & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ from ‘Duchess’ EP (Honest Jons, snippet at around 1:03 below) ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ is a he-said, she-said. And like the bes»
This week's Spotify playlist, forged from the week's content. Edition #118 features Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Wiseblood, Jessie Ware, SBTRKT and some more. »
It wasn’t exactly ATP: Jersey Shore, but it’s about as close as we’ll ever get to that concept, with a series of bands delivering the most anti-Springsteen racket the good citizens of Asbury have ever heard. »
It's the HARMONIES, MAN.»
Kicking off a week dedicated "solo" artists, is James Skinner's look at the most traditional of "solo" musician, that easily defined beast that is the singer-songwriter... He says: It’s a term that will send many music fans scarpering; one that a lot of singer-songwriters are seemingly tired of hearing themselves. But whenever people ask me that dastardliest of questions it is generally what I tell them.»
Sorry to disappoint you: this is not a collection of slash fiction starring The Prince of Alt Country, but it is a tour through his more erotic moments that reveals them inseparable from his soul-searching, even soul-lifting moments.»
It's been a dramatic year for the Artists Problematically Known as Alt Country - Bonnie Billy's self-proclaimed "big" record, new albums from Wilco, Bill (Smog) Callahan, Magnolia Electric Co, Handsome Family, and even a follow-up to Nick Cave's classic novel "And the Ass Saw the Angel". Following on from our reappraisals of Shoegaze and Slowcore, DiS takes a look at Alt Country. »
Will Oldham needs no introduction as the best-connected mainstay of US indie / alt. country and one of the most sought-after collaborators. This is the first part of our guide through his formidable back-catalogue...»
Among the fine selection of spring lambs to emerge in May, we've been bleating on about LPs from No Age, Bon Iver and The Futureheads»
This week's DiScussion – if the title isn't too much of a giveaway – focuses on songs to while away off-sick-with-a-cold time. After all, something has to fill the space ‘tween Neighbours and Neighbours»
Did you dig September as much as we did? Really, we’ve not known a month like it this year: fantastic releases were flooding through our letterbox near-enough non-stop. From metal to folk, to thunderous post-rock and twisted electronica, many a base was covered and covered brilliantly. So this month’s A Month In Records has been one tough mother to compile...»
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