Pre-sale of the week is Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, out on 9 September. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree, follows the Bad Seeds’ most critically and commercially successful release of recent times, 2013’s Push The Sky Away. Skeleton Tree began its journey in late 2014…
New releases for 1 July include Sara Watkins, formerly of Nickel Creek, who releases Young In All The Wrong Ways, an intensely confessional and effecting album. Crossroads Revisited features nearly 4 hours of previously unavailable on CD music from Eric Clapton’s famous guitar festival. Punk Poppers Blink-182 return at breakneck place with their seventh studio…
We’re really pleased to announce our fantastic line-up for the Beggars Fair on the 9th July, so here we go: 1.45 – Alite. Think Eagles country rock complete with 3-part harmonies. 2.15 – Head South By Weaving. Prog-folk at its finest. 3.00 – A Formal Horse. Full-on prog rock in the finest traditions of the…
New releases are starting to slow as summer arrives, but there are still some goodies out on 24 June. The prolific Felice Brothers return with Life In The Dark, in which they continue to mine their particular brand of folk/country/rock/soul to great effect. DJ Shadow’s first since 2011 marks a definite shift to original composition,…
17 June sees the release of what founder Michael Gira says will be the last (sob) Swans album, The Glowing Man, which contains all the epicness (if that’s a word) we have become accustomed to. We also get the remix version of Public Service Broadcasting’s monumentally successful The Race For Space, available here on indies…
We’ve got some more great new releases coming out on 10 June. First up, Steve Earle & Shawn Colvin release the imaginatively titled Colvin & Earle, which although not live has the spontaneity and freshness of a live performance. Clean Your Clock delivers, for the final time, that full-on live Motörhead punch. We don’t normally…