The line-up for this year’s Sidmouth Folk Festival has been announced, featuring a whole host of great artists.
July, 2009
The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Duckworth Lewis Method
The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon co-makes a concept album about cricket, including songs about meeting Javed Miandad and Shane Warne’s ‘ball of the century’.
Wireless Festival (Bella Union Stage) – Hyde Park, London
A dream line-up in the midst of a of a corporate landfill nightmare. A who’s who of people to see live when you get the chance. Apparently Kanye West played too. Peter Bloxham reviews.
Times New Viking announce new album
A mere year after the release of their last album, Times New Viking return with a brand new record.
Canada’s Polaris Prize announces shortlist
Today the Polaris Music prize announced it’s shortlisted albums for 2009′s prize.
The Minus 5 – Killingsworth
Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck team up for an eighth album of offbeat lyrical observations, wrapped in alt-country and with the Decemberists helping out.
TLOBF Interview :: Yo La Tengo
Ahead of the release of their new album, Popular Songs, and prior to the Meltdown Festival appearance, Pete Bloxham had a chat with Yo La Tengo.
TLOBF Interview :: Hafdis Huld
John Brainlove curls up on the chaise lounge with Icelandic chanteuse Hafdis Huld to catch up on some small talk before a recent show at London’s Slaughtered Lamb.
Art Of Noise // Air France
We have a huge lists of bands who we’d love to have as mix curators, and at the top of that list are/were Air France. Check out their stunning mixtape inside. Plus! Read a bonus interview with the duo!
Introducing :: Banjo or Freakout
“I see making music with a computer as something really different. You can dick around with a stupid sound for ages. It’s great!” We find out a little about what makes Alessio Natalizia (aka Banjo or Freakout) tick.
Dinosaur Jr – Farm
Bands make two great albums in a row all the time. But few manage to record two great albums in a row which, after nearly 20 years apart, recapture everything that made them great. It looks like Dinosaur Jr are just making up for lost time…
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Fabric, London, 03/07/09
A performance that would be more at home alongside Sly & The Family Stone and The Mamas & the Papas at Woodstock than in the sweaty stone walls of Fabric, this band definitely deserve a hand clap or two.
The Ghost of a Thousand – New Hopes, New Demonstrations
New Hopes is packed tightly with different ideas and an excitable pulse. If the superstardom of the likes of Gallows has alienated their message to you, consider The Ghost of a Thousand.
Lou Barlow announces new solo album
Lou Barlow has announced plans to release a second solo album, via Merge, at the beginning of October.
Copy Haho to tour with Los Campesinos!
Celebrated indie-pop Scots Copy Haho will be main support for Los Campesinos! on their UK tour in October.
Michael J Sheehy & The Hired Mourners – With These Hands
With These Hands – The Rise And Fall Of Francis Delaney is one of those rare and dangerous things, a ‘concept album’. It tracks the life of prize-fighter Francis Delaney, and much like the fictional focus of its title, it has moments of glory and others spent flat on its arse.
