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Field Day returns bigger this year, extending to a second day for the first time.
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We caught up with Kelcey Ayer and Matt Frazier of Local Natives before their Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms show to discuss the new album, production, food, and a whole lot of T.V. (mostly removed for your benefit). Jan: So, Fallon, I just saw that. How was that? Kelcey: Really, really great. Jan: You just kind of jumped up […]
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Balthazar, a Belgian pop/rock group, served as the opening act. Their first number saw them jumping around the stage with frantic energy, but this energy seemed to conflict with that of their music. This sums up my first impression of the Belgian group, I just wasn’t sure of them. The grainy lead vocals were reminiscent […]
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The Southampton local played their final headline tour date to a sold out crowd in the Guildhall with brutal energy.
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Sufjan Stevens, the indie-folk musician behind the amazing Illinois, follows up his 2006 collection of Christmas songs with Silver & Gold. Containing five reworked EPs, totalling fifty eight tracks, there’s a lot to see here. The collection displays an amazing amount of variance, from his sweet folk affections prominent in Vol.6 Gloria, to the more aggressive electronic experiments […]
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As the final UK tour date promoting his new album From The Top Of Willamette Mountain nears, we talk to Joshua James about ghost hunting, the album making process, culture, and even farm life.
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First up was Vicki Musselwhite, a local musician armed with an acoustic guitar and a pretty damn good voice. Her songs tended to be quite slow paced and deliberate, with a strong soulful voice. Despite warning us that her next song was only a few days old and apologising in advance if she forgot the […]
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Joshua James, a folk artist out of Lincoln, Nebraska, has released the two albums The Sun Is Always Brighter, and Build Me This to critical acclaim, with publications like Paste Magazine saying “thankfully the authenticity that appeared in patches throughout his last record steers his latest.” Despite this, he hasn’t seemed quite able to find a wider […]