Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker will have their debut Australian performances in March 2018. Performing at MODERN FOLK! FROM BRITAIN at the Thornbury Theatre Melbourne with fellow British singer-songwriter Blair Dunlop. They will also perform at Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Blue Mountains Music Festival. What truly sets the duo apart is the combination of Josienne’s divinely nuanced, emotionally affecting voice and Ben’s intricately expressive, adroit guitar technique. Ben...
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Goat Girl share new track ‘Scream’, released on the 15th December on Limited edition 7”, as an exclusive B Side with recent single ‘Cracker Drool’ as A Side. The track is available on all streaming services now. Listen below! Goat Girl head up an emerging set of groups from South London who have been inspired by the burgeoning local scene there. A classic sketch by the late great comedian Bill...
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Honey Hahs release their new single ‘Forever’. The accompanying video was filmed on their first visit to Paris to perform at LesInRocks Festival last month. Watch the clip below! Honey Hahs describe the meaning behind the song; “Forever was written about our Dad who was worried about the world coming to an end. He started buying loads of food in case you couldn’t buy it in the shops anymore. He...
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PicaPica announce their debut EP, Spring & Shade, to be released on December 8. To celebrate they have shared a video for new single ‘Small Time/Secret’. Watch it below! PicaPica features the vocal interplay of Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates, dual front women who create powerful harmonies atop layers of texture created by Adam Beattie & Sonny Johns. Josienne and Samantha met on the London acoustic music scene several years...
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Starcrawler announce their upcoming self-titled debut album to be released on 19 January 2018. Recorded by Ryan Adams on analog tape at his Pax-Am Studio. Starcrawler is now available for pre-order here. The first single from the album, ‘I Love LA’, comes with a video directed by music photographer Autumn de Wilde, a fun and feisty homage to the city of dreamers. Watch it below! Opening in a donut shop/Chinese food restaurant,...
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South London’s Goat Girl share new single ‘Cracker Drool’, which was produced by Dan Carey and recorded in his South London studio. The video was directed by CC Wade and filmed in Sussex by the London based brothers who have previously worked with King Krule. Watch it below! ‘Cracker Drool’ is now available on all streaming services and will be released on the 8th December on limited edition 7” backed by...
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Dublin four-piece, Lankum release their new album Between the Earth and Sky. To celebrate, they have shared a new video for ‘The Granite Gaze’, made by cult Irish filmmaker Stephen McCollum. Watch below! Stephen has described the video as: “A metaphysical allegory exploring mankind’s capacity for ignorance and destruction of innocence in the face of celestial mystery, expressed in plasticine.” The band comprises of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch along with...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker share their six track EP, The Birds, out now both digitally and as a very limited edition 12”. Josienne and Ben will play their debut Australian shows this coming March as a part of Port Fairy Folk Festival. Further detials below! The Birds is a suite of six songs that explore the themes of migration and departure. These are songs of autumn and shorter days, of flying...
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Dublin four-piece Lankum announce their new album, Between The Earth And Sky, to be released Friday 27th October. The band have shared single ‘What Will We Do When We Have No Money?’ ahead of its release. Listen below! Lankum combine distinctive four-part vocal harmonies with arrangements of uilleann pipes, concertina, accordion, fiddle and guitar. Their repertoire spans humorous Dublin music-hall ditties and street-songs, classic ballads from the Traveller tradition, traditional...
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Starcrawler share their new track & video for ‘Let Her Be’. This is the first track from their debut album produced by Ryan Adams, which is due for release early next year. Watch the video, directed by J.Casey Modderno below! Modderno described the vision for the video: “Starcrawler has an amazing live presence. One of the first things I noticed was the almost demonic energy that Arrow has on stage –...
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Princess Nokia has released her 1992 Deluxe album, and shares a video for new track ‘Flava’ (produced by Kadi Haze) and directed by Destiny Frasqueri & long-time collaborator Milah Libin. This video is the 15th music video Princess Nokia has co directed since 2014, and the 7th since the release of the original 1992. Watch it below! Princess Nokia states that she “wanted to make a cinematic short film, with a...
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South London four-piece Goat Girl share the video for ‘Crow Cries’ to celebrate the release along with ‘Mighty Despair’ on a limited 7″. Watch the video, written, produced and directed by lead singer Clottie Cream, below! The band’s furious sound represents how it feels to live in this current climate “There’s teenage angst in them,” says L.E.D “But I think that was inevitable, growing up in London over the last ten...
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LA’s Starcrawler share two tracks from their Rough Trade Session. The catchy as hell live favourite ‘Used To Know’ and ‘Ants’ which were previously released on a limited edition 7″. Watch the recordings below! Frontwoman Arrow de Wilde’s restrained menace is balanced with guitarist Henri Cash’s energy. On the day, Arrow remembers: “It was pissing rain. We recorded these sessions, Henri lost his voice, we played a crazy show at this club,...
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Goat Girl have released their new single ‘Crow Cries’. The track comes from a 7″ out Friday 25 August. Listen below! Goat Girl formed a few years ago in South London, all four members of the band have just turned 20, being busy on the road for the last 18 months playing with everyone from The Fall to Parquet Courts. The band’s furious sound represents how it feels to live...
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This Is The Kit, the musical project which holds Paris-via-Bristol songwriter Kate Stables, share a new video to ‘Hotter Colder’, taken from their new album Moonshine Freeze. Watch below! Video Director James Hankins explains how the video came about; “Kate was very keen on the video involving water and wanted quite a dark feel to it. Seeing as her and Rozi both love wild swimming we thought we’d go for...
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Princess Nokia has released a brand new single ‘G.O.A.T’. This is the first time her music has been available on streaming services other than SoundCloud and YouTube. The accompanying video was produced by Wally West, directed by Destiny Frasqueri & Milah Libin, with cinematography by Travis Libin. Watch it below! Princess Nokia is the best-known project of New Yorker Destiny Frasqueri. She’s been rapping and releasing tracks on YouTube and SoundCloud since...
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