Liverpool Sound City 2012
#Acoustic
Gig
Scott 'Wino' Weinrich’s distinctive vocal delivery has been central to a myriad of some of the most well known and highly regarded of the doom genre; Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan and Shrinebuilder in addition to his...
Band of the week
I want to put them in a shoebox full of wood shavings and keep them under my bed. This guitar/vocals duet are warm without being wet, romantic without being twee, and retain a dark undercurrent while bobbing merrily along in their rickety old...
Album Review
Wino & Conny Ochs / Heavy Kingdom
The King Arthur of doom, Scott Weinrich (Saint Vitus, The Obsessesed, Spirit Caravan, Shrinebuilder et al) here teams up with German singer-songwriter Conny Ochs for an album of predominantly acoustic intimacy. Defiantly howling against a backdrop...
Gig
After waking up with some serious beard envy over the resplendent facial furriness of William Fitzsimmons, I spend the best part of an hour trying my hardest to comb my own beard every which way in an attempt to match his standards. Needless to say...
EP Stubble - Unsigned
Fruitless Forest / Eat / Sleep EP
This isn't any old indie-folk. This is M&S indie folk. You can smell the motes of dust floating from reverberating acoustic strings. The sound is lush, the vocals are pitch-perfect, mellifluous harmonies ooze from every tune. But can...
Gig
You wanted beards. And yes I can confirm, Chewbacca has joined My Morning Jacket. But even if each strand of Jim James’s facial fuzz could also strum a guitar in mass-hair-unity, it wouldn’t have managed to exceed the euphoric wall of...
Band of the week
Music can be discovered in many different ways, there is so much on offer it can be hard to keep track of everything. Whether you spend hours trawling music websites like this, finding out about the hottest new bands from friends or whether you...
Album Review
Howard James Kenny / Shelter Songs
I have had in my possession for some time now a promotional copy of Howard James Kenny’s first single release, Insects, but for one reason or another had not got round to putting pen to paper over it [other than an exchange with Honch about...
Interview
After dodging past all the angry Libyan protesters outside the BBC building on Oxford Road we made it to the much more welcoming surroundings of the Royal Northern College of Music. The ever increasing line of people inside the building could...
