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Gordon Haskell‘s first record “Circles” was with the Fleur de Lys in 1966. He was the bassist and songwriter. His first solo album was with CBS in 1969. After a brief spell with King Crimson as bassist/vocalist in 1971 he was signed to Atlantic by Ahmet Ertegun. Arif Mardin (Norah Jones) produced his 2nd album [...]
“Louis Eliot’s sharp lyricism and easy song writing serves him well.” NME
“True pop genius.” The Times
“Winning blend of rustic charm and urban cool…a savvy pop brain with the lyrical articulacy of a Costello or a Weller.” Uncut
“Louis Eliot has welded the sound of barn-bound folk to that of pure pop and emerged with an album [...]
NIGEL STONIER is a producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from North West England.
In various combinations of the above roles he has recorded and performed with a vast range of artistes including Thea Gilmore, Clare Teal, Mike Scott and the Waterboys, Martha Wainwright, John Bramwell (I Am Kloot), Fairport Comvention, Joan Baez, Sandi Thom, Paul Young, Rod Clements and Lindisfarne.
Nigel [...]
British band Aqualung, led by acclaimed singer/songwriter Matt Hales, will release “Magnetic North,” their first album of all new material in three years on April 26th.
Aqualung released their first album, “Strange and Beautiful,” in the U.S. in 2004. That was followed by 2007’s “Memory Man,” which chronicled his dark adventures into fatherhood. A favorite [...]
US Indie phenomenon – SECONDHAND SERENADE (aka John Vesley) was the # 1 unsigned MySpace artist for 7 consecutive months.
John Vesley is a one-man show hailing from Menlo Park, CA. Born into a family of musicians – his father has been a professional jazz musician for over 20 years. John started getting into music around [...]
Stephen Duffy has tried his hand at many things, but only in 2007, did he get around to growing a beard for the first time. It’s not a development in which he invests much significance, but somehow, listening to the 15th album of his recording life, it seems fitting. You can hear every experience accrued [...]
The Durutti Column featuring Vini Reilly, a classically-trained pianist and virtuoso guitarist, took their name from Spanish revolutionary Buenaventura Durruti and the cartoon of Two Situationist Cowboys in the comic Le Retour De La Colonne Durutti (1966). Centred around Reilly, the then five-piece band recorded the first ever music release on Factory Records. And to [...]
“Here’s to tonic, here’s to gin, here’s to sparks and here’s to gasoline…” You’re The Radio
We are lucky to have musicians like Thea Gilmore, musicians that want more from themselves and more from music than some pre-formed, whistle-friendly cud, something to chew on but never fully digest. In an age where artists – male and [...]
Music for the heartbroken, the heartbreakers and the troublemakers, Jim Bianco’s new record, *sing, is poised to move him far forward on his path to becoming a renowned and respected singer/songwriter and entertainer. The record, both eclectic and aggressively accessible, leans on the topics of love, loss, obsession and the folly of being a person. [...]
Born in Vancouver Canada but now based in Echo Park, California, Reynolds was the first signing to the new singer-songwriter label Fruitcake.
Moody, soulful and compelling, the songs on Exile are rooted in the Canadian’s experiences as a tugboat deckhand and construction worker. He’s also mined the likes of James Joyce, Bowie (circa Hunky Dory), the [...]
2006 was an incredible year for Jace Everett. Being named an AOL Breaker Artist, performing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, touring the UK with Dierks Bentley, achieving a #1 smash record (as a songwriter) with the Josh Turner recording of “Your Man”, and finally releasing his debut album on SonyBMG!
But the music business [...]
One of the great and frequently overlooked innovators of the late 20th century music, John Foxx could almost be the popular conception of a cult artist – an academic, influenced by film, painting and photography as much as music; leaving his band before they broke big; challenging the very notion of the pop song and [...]
Scottish born singer-songwriter/guitarist John Martyn began his innovative and expansive career at the age of 17 with a style influenced by American blues artists such as Robert Johnson and Skip James, the traditional music of his homeland, and the eclectic folk of Davey Graham. With the aid of his mentor, traditional singer Hamish Imlach, Martyn [...]
It’s been half a century since Jerry Lee Lewis first rocketed to the top of America’s pop, country and R&B charts with “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire” and while those iconoclastic performances still define the essence of rock ‘n’ roll for millions, Jerry Lee himself continues to thrill audiences around [...]
Veruca Salt Biog
Veruca Salt reshaped the jagged, abrasive punk-pop of the Pixies and Breeders into a more accessible, riff-driven power pop formula that also borrowed from pop/hard rockers like Cheap Trick. It was a successful formula, both musically and commercially, yet it didn’t ensure them indie rock credibility; in fact, they became one of the [...]
Best known as the frontman in The Bluetones, Mark Morriss released his debut solo album Memory Muscle on June 2, 2008. Getting his hands dirty with his own set of songs has been an inspiring experience for Morriss who started trying them out acoustically at open-mic nights in London way back in 2004: ‘I’d just [...]
Murphy's Heart
Thea Gilmore
One Day Soon
Gordon Haskell
Kittow's Moor
Louis Eliot & The Embers
Notes From Overground
Nigel Stonier
