I’m going to confess that despite his fifteen year career in music, I only discovered Asthmatic Kitty artist Denison Witmer last month when his ninth and latest CD The Ones Who Wait landed on my doormat, writes Neonfiller.com‘s Joe Lepper. […]
When Girlyman’s Doris Muramatsu was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010 the band’s world caved in. For the next nine months the US vocal harmony folk act’s career was on hold and Muramatsu embarked on her painful and frightening journey through […]
Ashmatic Kitty artist Shannon Stephens, who years back was in the band Marzuki with Sufjan Stevens, first came to our attention in 2010 with the long awaited release of her self titled debut, writes Neonfiller.com’s Joe Lepper. This was originally […]
It is rare to discover a record so unlike anything else you are currently listening to, a record you know will be with you for years after a first listen, writes Neonfiller.com‘s David Newbury Lindsay Fuller’s third album You, Anniversary, […]
There’s something so reassuringly cosy about the music of Alex Highton, the singer-songwriter who briefly flirted with fame three years ago when movie star Ashton Kutcher emerged as an unlikely fan, writes Neonfiller.com‘s Joe Lepper. His latest album Woodditton Wives […]
Back in 2010 Fire Records began marking the 25th anniversary of Howe Gelb’s legendary alternative country band Giant Sand by re-issuing the bulk of their back catalogue, writes Neonfiller.com‘s Joe Lepper. Since then each of their 16 albums between 1985 and […]
The road to Nebraska is littered with the ghosts of Americana and getting there demands a humble homage to the stoic wraiths of bearded plaid shirts to navigate its precise route, writes David Newbury for Neonfiller. It’s rare for outsiders […]
Maudy Tree, the second album by Edinburgh based four piece Blue Flint, is the latest excellent contemporary folk album to find its way to us,writes Joe Lepper from Neonfiller.com. Signed to Johnny Rock Records, who also have Southern Tenant […]
The north east of England continues to dazzle us at Neonfiller.com, from the inventive pop of Sunderland’s Field Music to the beautiful Northumbrian lilt of The Unthanks. Now another act is on the scene, Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell, who […]
Bert Jansch, one of Britain’s most influential guitarists, has passed away at the age of 67, reports Neonfiller.com. Bert, who was a founding member of the folk rock group Pentangle and one of the brightest stars of the 1960s […]
