Return To Form – from Ciaran Lavery’s new album Let Bad In, out May 27th. ‘Alt-folk troubadour Ciaran Lavery has channelled the quiet despair of isolation into timeless songs of beauty and heartache’. Film By ROC // @bitterocc Featuring Jake […]
A nutcase returned to the Errigle Inn the other night. Real Music Club had brought back Hamell On Trial, and he ripped up that stage with his in your face, punk instilled, debauched, Tr*mp-worrying anti-folk. He moved the motley crew […]
Eszter Balint doesn’t see her story as anything special. The Singer, songwriter, violinist, and actress starred in Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise at the age of 16. She bolted from communist Hungary at the age of 10, with her extended […]
White Trees from the album ‘Leave The Radio On’ by Fernando Viciconte. The album was 3 years in the making and features a virtual who’s who of Portland’s finest musicians, including Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey as well as members […]
Wishing Well by David Berkeley, from the album Cardboard Boat. The album stands out on it’s own, but when combined with the stories in its accompanying book ‘The Free Brontosaurus’, a profoundly emotional world emerges. The songs on the album […]
Freakwater is a Hillbilly term for moonshine. It’s often used for people from the country or in the mountainous regions in the US, chiefly Appalachia and the Ozarks. Freakwater, the band, started life as the musical pairing of Janet Beveridge […]
Matt Saxton’s acoustic guitar song Seabird was a Google Holiday Doodle a couple of years ago. Here it is with a lovely animated film created by the extremely talented Matt Cruickshank. He will be releasing an album later in 2016, […]
“Check out The Steel City Jug Slammers, they’re an old timey style jug band,” so says Stephen Pierce of Banditos. Long ago there were many tales of a nameless, anomalous, blues ghost that roamed the lands in search of a […]
Official video for “Elena”, from the Feb 6, 2016 release from Dan Stuart with Twin Tones, Marlowe’s Revenge. Directed by Gerardo Landa. Dan Stuart is a songwriter, author and habitual expat currently residing in Mexico City. He was a founding […]
Matt Andersen’s new album ‘Honest Man’ will be available from True North Records on February 26, 2016. Andersen is a powerhouse performer with a giant soul-filled voice and commanding stage presence, who has built a formidable following the old fashioned […]
