★★★★½ The Sydney Morning Herald Rodrigo y Gabriela Review
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Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker sing beautifully drawn miniatures full of a melancholy reminiscent of early-70’s folk singers like Sandy Denny, June Tabor and Shirley Collins. But when the the duo…
NOTES FROM AN ISLAND (Gilded Lily Records/Planet) ★★★★☆ Blair Dunlop doesn't advertise it but his father, Ashley Hutchings, was one of the most influential musicians in the English folk boom...
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On the eve of his sophomore Australian tour dates Blair Dunlop is set to release his fourth studio album ‘Notes From An Island’. Described as his heartbreak album exploring the parallels of personal solitude and national isolationism.
Ahead of Blair Dunlop‘s second visit to Australia, he took the time to chat with Chris Familton about his new album’s blend of English folk and American country music and the role that…
Marking his third solo album, singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has released Between Two Shores out today via Anti-. Following up 2015’s GRAMMY nominated Didn’t He Ramble, and his 2012 solo debutRhythm and Repose, the ten-track collection was produced by Hansard himself...
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By the time you read this the new album by Blair Dunlop, Notes From An Island, will have been completed – he was midway through recording it when we spoke
Touring Australia this March Remote Control and Rough Trade are excited to announce Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker’s new album Seedlings All will be released on Friday 23 March. To...
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The 500-odd metre ramble from the Irish Whiskey Museum to St Stephen’s Green feels undistinguished under a granitic Dublin sky. Impatient locals weighed down by winter coats zigzag amid tourists…
The story has been told many times of how Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, the Mexican guitar duo were unearthed over a decade ago while busking on the streets of…