Mark Harrison presents new album The Road to Liberty

The Mark Har­ri­son Band have just launched their sixth album called The Road to Lib­er­ty. I met Mark at Eal­ing Blues Fes­ti­val a few years ago where I talked to him after his set. He was charm­ing and patient­ly chat­ted to a few of us for quite some time, dis­cussing the beau­ti­ful Nation­al Res­onator guitar…

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London day festivals happening this summer

It’s not been an easy sum­mer for fes­ti­vals, and each week brings fur­ther can­cel­la­tions. The good news is that a sur­feit of one-day music events is hap­pen­ing in Lon­don’s var­i­ous green spaces. Most fes­ti­vals have reached their final tick­et release, so if you’ve got your eye on some­thing, best snap those tick­ets up with­out fur­ther ado.…

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Sea Change festival to go ahead this summer

Some good news for the south west fes­ti­val scene. Sea Change fes­ti­val is back this sum­mer with a one-day event named Sea Change Presents. And the team are glad to announce that next year sees the full three-day event from 27–29 May 2022. This year’s Sea Change will see live music, film and con­ver­sa­tions hap­pen­ing at…

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Psych artists Absolutely Free release lush single How to Paint Clouds

Toron­to trio Absolute­ly Free share their first release in sev­en years. Called How to Paint Clouds, the sin­gle is from the band’s impend­ing sec­ond stu­dio album After­touch which lands on Sep­tem­ber 14th.  Since the band’s Polaris Music Prize-nom­i­­nat­ed debut album in 2014, Absolute­ly Free have been involved with mul­ti­me­dia projects such as Gene­va Freeport EP in 2019…

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Dakota Jones share single: I Did it to Myself

Now this is just the sort of sul­try num­ber to make you long for the prop­er return of live music, an evening in an inti­mate venue, doing your stuff on the dance floor with social dis­tanc­ing noth­ing but a dis­tant mem­o­ry. The artists in ques­tion are Dako­ta Jones, a funk blues and soul out­fit making…

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Long awaited new single by W H Lung ‘Pearl in the Palm’

W H Lung have just released the first track from their high­ly antic­i­pat­ed sec­ond album, Van­i­ties, due 3rd Sep­tem­ber. Called Pearl in the Palm, the sin­gle marks a depar­ture from the Man­ches­ter band’s first album Inci­den­tal Music. When an artist you’re par­tic­u­lar­ly fond of announces a change of direc­tion there’s a bit­ter­sweet moment. Yay, new…

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Todmorden sounds: Golden Lion present Jarv Is, David Holmes

“A Love from Out­er York­shire” David Holmes Local cre­atives, inter­na­tion­al musi­cians, artists, DJs, friends and fam­i­ly of The Gold­en Lion pub and music venue in Tod­mor­den all came togeth­er to help Waka (Richard Walk­er) & Gig Mattha­nee – the landlords/promoters, raise mon­ey to help the venue’s future by launch­ing a spe­cial­ist record label vinyl series. There’s a new dou­ble A…

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Mega Bog goes “Station to Station”

The intrigu­ing and mys­ti­cal artist Erin Bir­gy, aka Mega Bog, releas­es her new album in July, called Life, and Anoth­er. Erin is an exper­i­men­tal artist, weav­ing a con­coc­tion of pri­mar­i­ly jazz, folk and ambi­ent. Her vocals have a chameleon-like qual­i­ty which she uses to great effect, at times send­ing you into a trance with soothing…

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The Weather Station announce European tour

One of this year’s most riv­et­ing and orig­i­nal albums is The Weath­er Sta­tion’s Igno­rance. The project with Tama­ra Lin­de­man at the helm has cre­at­ed a dev­as­tat­ing and per­son­al nar­ra­tive about cli­mate change.  Gourmet Gigs reviewed the dra­mat­ic sin­gle Atlantic: “it is a star­tling, unusu­al and brood­ing work, ele­gant­ly arranged with a lush expan­sive­ness yet suffused…

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