On his 73rd birthday Bob Dylan has announced he is returning to Australia and New Zealand for a run of shows many of which are in relatively intimate theatre settings. Here’s the list of dates and venues plus a listen to the new Dylan track ‘Full Moon & Empty Arms’ from his forthcoming 2014 album … Continue reading
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KATIE BRIANNA: Dark Side Of The Morning (Video)
Katie Brianna released one of the best Americana albums in Australia last year. Dark Side Of The Morning is a record built on her wonderful voice that brings with it barrels of tears and heartache amid a certain uplifting resilience and strength. With wonderfully sympathetic instrumentation it’s a sweetly melancholic collection of songs that draws … Continue reading
VIDEO: Mark Moldre ~ Everything I Need
Mark Moldre continues in his quest to release a clip for every song on his 2013 LP An Ear To The Earth and this could be his best yet. Filmed amid the mid-renovation bricks and tiles of bandmates Jamie and Scott Hutchings’ childhood home the video perfectly complements the percussive elements of the song. Continue reading
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WATCH: Dave Favours ~ Linda Marie
Sydney songwriter Dave Favours is releasing his excellent new LP Wet Suburban Sunday this week and to accompany it he’s posted a great Jeff Siberry directed clip for the single Linda Marie featuring a Sasquatch and black and white footage of rivers, tunnels and train tracks. Continue reading
TOUR NEWS: The Good Lovelies announce 2014 Australian Tour
Canadian folk trio The Good Lovelies return to Australia this March for a healthy string of 18 dates including appearances at the Port Fairy, Yackandandah and Blue Mountains folk festivals. They’ve released 3 studio albums plus their most recent release, the 2012 live album Live at Revolution which you can check out below. Friday, February … Continue reading
Pokey LaFarge announces Australian tour
Signed to Jack White’s Third Man Records, Pokey LaFarge is heading to Australia in March to tour his recently released self-titled LP. Support from Mustered Courage. Friday, March 7th & Saturday, March 8th – Port Fairy Folk Music Festival Tickets: http://www.portfairyfolkfestival.com/ Sunday, March 9th & Monday, March 10th – WOMADelaide, Botanic Park, Adelaide Tickets: http://www.womadelaide.com.au/ … Continue reading
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SIX STRINGS ~ Hat Fitz & Cara
Hat Fitz & Cara are an Australia-based blues and folk duo who have gradually built a great reputation both on stage and on record for their authentic and organic approach to the form. Unfortunately their lives and music were derailed by a terrible car accident at the end of 2012 that left Cara with severe … Continue reading
Alt-Country / Americana / Folk / News / Videos
NEW MUSIC: Jep and Dep ~ Confide In Me [Video]
Jep and Dep are Sydney duo Jessica Cassar and Darren Cross who have been working up a reputation as a wonderful live act over the last year or so. I’ve caught them a couple of times now and they really do possess that special musical connection and that balance of sweetness and grit that typifies … Continue reading
Album Reviews / Folk / Videos
ALBUM REVIEW: The Darling Downs ~ In The Days When The World Was Wide
by Chris Familton Messrs Peno and Salmon reconvene for their third record under The Darling Downs moniker and as befits their general proclivity for exploring different musical forms they’ve gone and taken another sonic diversion, this time into 60s-tinged folk. Of course them being them they don’t restrict themselves to just folk. There are strains … Continue reading
Album Reviews / Americana / Blues / Soul
ALBUM REVIEW: Lo Carmen & Peter Head ~ The Apple Don’t Fall Far From The Tree
by Chris Familton Surprisingly this is the first collaborative album from Lo Carmen and her pianist father Peter Head and hopefully it won’t be the last, such is its endearing mix of country soul and late night jazz. Primarily the songs are built on Head’s elegant and melodious playing and Carmen’s playful purr of a … Continue reading
TOUR NEWS: Robert Ellis, Cory Chisel & Marlon Williams Australian Tour
Robert Ellis won a ton of new fans with his tour at the start of the year supporting Justin Townes Earle and on the back of his excellent debut LP Photographs. Now he is returning to Australia for an appearance at the Mullumbimby Music Festival and a run of solo dates with Cory Chisel and … Continue reading
Six Strings: Mark Moldre
Mark Moldre has slowly but surely carved out a wonderful body of work with more than a decade of releases to his name both as a solo artist and prior to that with the band Hitchcock’s Regret. His first solo album The Waiting Room was a wonderful collection of songs of which we said in our … Continue reading
Album Reviews / Blues / Folk
ALBUM REVIEW: Mark Moldre | An Ear To The Earth
by Chris Familton An Ear To The Earth is the follow-up to Mark Moldre’s debut solo album The Waiting Room, an accomplished set of folk-tinged indie rock songs that no doubt gave him the confidence and curiosity to dig deeper into his own songwriting and explore some of the more diverse corners of his musical … Continue reading
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SIX STRINGS: The Weeping Willows
Last year The Weeping Willows released their excellent album Till The North Wind Blows (review) which showed them to be wonderfully authentic proponents of bluegrass, folk and country music. With voices that contrast and blend perfectly the couple write songs around their voices and the superb guitar playing of Andrew Wrigglesworth. We spoke with singer … Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: The Weeping Willows ~ Till The North Wind Blows
by Chris Familton Melbourne duo The Weeping Willows released Till The North Wind Blows last year but their superb collection of songs could have dropped at any time in the last hundred years, such is the timeless quality they bring to their music and songwriting. The album drips with authenticity which can be a hard … Continue reading
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