Freya Josephine Hollick hails from Victoria and will be releasing her new LP The Unceremonious Junking Of Me, this October on Heart Of The Rat Records. It follows her 2014 album Beauty & Sorrow. My Sleepin’ Body the first taste of the album, showcasing her rich and ornate folk voice, in a clip that recalls the age of silent and … Continue reading
Cash Savage has been relatively quiet since her excellent 2013 album The Hypnotizer. The good news is she’s back with her band The Last Drinks and a new full length LP One Of Us which is due for release late June, 2016. Trading in country and blues fuelled rock ‘n’ roll, Savage’s way with words … Continue reading
Despite being critically well-received, M.E. Baird’s very fine and emotionally raw album [Fall] deserves more attention. The record hits some deep, honest and personal places and was written during a period of great loss. Before, during and after recording [Fall] Baird endured the deaths of his Mother, Father, Sister and Nephew. He has a run of live shows coming … Continue reading
For the last few years William Crighton has been building a strong buzz around his songs and live performances – both solo and with his band. Finally we see the fruition of his songwriting and recording with this mesmerising debut album. There’s a dark weight to Crighton’s music, both in subject matter and delivery, with … Continue reading
The Felice Brothers are one of our favourite alt-country bands with their fusion of all manner of styles–from country to folk, blues to ragtime. The good news is they’re also a prolific group and they’ve just announced that their new LP Life In The Dark is coming out on Yep Roc Records on June 24th. … Continue reading
This is the first album in over a decade for the legendary country music singer and it finds her surveying a life in music with new versions of classics such as Fist City and Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, covers and new duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson. Lynn sounds in surprisingly strong … Continue reading
Melbourne alt-country and folk duo The Weeping Willows recorded their sophomore album in Los Angeles and as such it has a lived-in, warm and lush sound. Their authenticity and craft as singers, as songwriters and in Andrew Wriggleworth’s sublime guitar playing makes this a hypnotic and alluring album. They’ve taken a detour down some darker and … Continue reading
Sydney band Fallon Cush have a brand new album Bee In Your Bonnet coming out on May 20th and here’s the first and very fine single from it – Useless Friend. On their third album they’ve continued the refinement and evolution of the Fallon Cush sound by introducing a more alt-country, wide-open-road feel to the … Continue reading
Eagle & The Wolf is the new collaborative project between blues musician Kris Morris and singer/songwriter Sarah Humphreys. We’ve heard the new album and reckon it’s the best thing either of the pair have put their creative talents to. Blues, country, folk and a streak of gospel run through the album and indeed this first … Continue reading
Berlin-based Pauline Andrès came up on our radar with her last LP All The Ghosts (2014) and now she’s backed that up with a new album The Heart Breaks, out on April 15th. Andrès trades in a sultry and dark gothic Americana that thrives on smokey atmosphere and subject matter that gets under the skin … Continue reading
Henry Wagons just released his solo album After What I Did Last Night… last week and he’s backed that up with a clip for one of the album’s strongest tracks in ‘Santa Fe’. The song is an interesting one for Wagons. It takes a leaf out of The War On Drugs’ songbook with its atmospheric, … Continue reading
John Flanagan went straight to the source for his new album – Nashville TN, where he used producer Viktor Krauss and some of the city’s finest session players to bring his melancholic songs to life on this classic-sounding Americana record. Flanagan has a smooth, familiar vocal sound reminiscent of Ron Sexsmith and John Fullbright and … Continue reading
Photographer and director Lyn Taylor has started producing some great clips of live acoustic performances of Australian folk and alt. country acts with Nick Payne recording and mixing the audio. The pair also form the core of folk/bluegrass group Dear Orphans. Here are three of our favourite sessions so far with Mark Lucas, Katie Brianna … Continue reading
Mark Moldre continues on his quest to release a clip for each of the ten tracks on his excellent 2013 LP An Ear To The Earth. ‘O, Dreamtime’ is a special family affair with Moldre’s 14 year old daughter creating the video on her iPad. It’s a stellar effort, suiting the song wonderfully with its … Continue reading
Darren Cross has released a new clip for his new song ‘Just Got Along (La La Le)’ which was filmed earlier this year in Paris. Here’s Cross talking about the clip and it’s connection to the recent terror attacks in that city: We filmed this for my song Just Got Along (la la le) in … Continue reading
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