7 August is a great week for new releases, bringing you albums from Mick Jones, Georgia Barnes, Lindi Ortega, Night Beds and Mac DeMarco. We really like Ultimate Painting’s second album, Green Lanes, and The Phoenix Foundation’s sixth, Give Up Your Dreams, but release of the week is the Winchester troubador Frank Turner’s latest, Positive…
Whilst The Maccabees’ new album is mighty impressive, particularly on lovely limited edition dark blue vinyl, release of the week goes to Lianne La Havas with the extra funky Blood. Also sneaking out her latest, a genre-bending effort which even comes in a dub version, is Joss Stone. The first Placebo album gets a wildly…
Just the four new releases recommended for 24 July, as a number of releases have been pushed back a week. This week seems to be mainly re-releases, however some, like the two Northern Soul 7” box sets and Roger Waters’ classic Amused to Death, are worthy of attention. Release of the week goes to Daniel…
We had a fabulous afternoon at Hundred Records’ first Beggars Fair, with four very different performances. First up was ex-music journalist Martin James, now a professor of journalism, who read from his new book about Dave Grohl and also provided some frankly scary stories about Iggy Pop and Ice-T, among others. Tom Lowman then got…
Release of the week is Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free, his follow-up to my favourite album of 2014, Southeastern. The week also brings a long overdue reissue of Michael Head’s The Magical World of The Strands, a stone classic, and new albums from The Chemical Brothers, Alan Jackson, Iron And Wine & Ben Bridwell,…
Two releases come out on 6 July with the rest arriving on Friday, which will be the day for all new releases from now on. The week brings new albums from Lucy Rose, Years & Years, Cradle Of Filth, Little Boots, Shelby Lynne and Owl City, plus a retrospective from Groove Armada. Release of the…