Stephen Fearing has lead a whirlwind life that has brought him back to his roots. Hailing originally from Vancouver in Canada, before moving as a child to grow up in Dublin, moving the United States to immerse himself in the music industry that existed there and then finally returning home to Vancouver once more. This …
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Having just finished listened to Sweet Remedies, the debut release from young Liverpool-based multi-instrumentalist The Pistachio Kid, I can safely say that I’m still not entirely certain of what I just heard. Is it jazz? Blues? Folk? Is it simply acoustic indie? Well it’s somewhere between none of those and all of them as impossible …
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One of the challenges that all musicians face is that as they release albums and their critical acclaim grows, so too does the height from which they can fall if they fail to live up to expectations. It’s happened to some of the best artists across the globe but one of the artists who seems …
Son Little is a daring man who you may already be well familiar with but his latest venture Aloha is a ground-breaking strike to the heart of music as he teaches both himself and the rest of the world the simple art of letting go. Son Little has gone from self-producing his work to finally …
Dàibhidh Stiùbhard, a talented young man whose name I would undoubtedly butcher if spoken allowed, is one of the most mesmerising and heartfelt acts to have come from the traditional Irish music scene in many a year. Releasing his debut album An Sionnach Dubh (The Black Fox) this month, Stiùbhard has tapped into a place …
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Track Dogs are a band that span the globe both in origin and in musical influence. Sounding like the classic ‘walk into a bar’ joke told through the ages; two Irishmen, and Englishman and an American walked into a bar and formed a band. But maybe without the bar part. The result is this Madrid-based …
Miles Nielsen has spent almost a decade spreading his unique brand of Western country rock with his pool of influences seeming to grow by the day. A man who never stops appreciating what’s surrounding him, Nielsen makes a point of surrounding himself with astonishing musicians and this comes to life in the form of Miles …
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Tuva Finserås is a Norwegian-born artist whose music is far too original to pigeon-hole into a tidy genre. Straying between alternative folk and pop, her songwriting also won her a spot at the prestigious 50 Songs in 5 Days founded by Specific music in partnership with APRA AMCOS. Tuva’s most recent single ‘I Could Be …
Luke Jackson is one of the most outstanding young musicians to have emerged in recent years and from album to album and show to show, he has constantly grown up and evolved his music to create tracks that are each more perfect than the last. His latest release Journals is a beautiful and reflective look …
Twelfth Day are a hauntingly beautiful young Scottish duo with an overwhelming passion for music that is almost unrivalled in modern music. Despite the pair concentrating their efforts on just their violin and pedal harp, over the years the duo have completely shirked the concept of genre and instead focussed on surprising their listeners with …