Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Sharron Kraus-- a British singer and musician in the tradition of Shirley Collins-- again displays her comprehensive grasp of English and Appalachian folk traditions with a solo album and the Rusalnaia project, a collaboration with Ex-Reverie's Gillian Chadwick. read more
The Music Slut (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Amongst the artists he mentions: Shirley Collins Morrissey Fleetwood Mac Read the full feature here. MP3: Colin Meloy - We Both Go Down Together
ChanVinson.com (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
I had yet another birthday celebration on Thursday. (I am not complaining.) SMA took me out to eat in his one day in town. He was heading to Nashville the following day to see The New Pornographers in concert at Mercy Lounge and Vanderbilt University 's Rites of Spring music festival. While he will be seeing some great independent artists such as Feist and Spoon , I am most pleased that he will witness...
superette (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
between getting mogo orders out, prepping for spring shows, and purging the house, we've been such homebodies. lately, our evenings have consisted mostly of doing work while watching the hbo mini-series, john adams. how's that for exciting? you can imagine the anomaly of last night when dabney and i actually left our apartment, stepped onto the t, and crossed the river. the only thing that could have...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The Decemberists singer offers his third solo, acoustic record-- the first two found him covering Morrissey and Shirley Collins-- and handles the material with a blend of irony and self-effacement that becomes its own kind of very modern charm.
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Caroline Weeks is both one of the finest singers i have heard and someone I have been lucky enough to experience live. Her voice is earthy and true like a young shirley collins, her songs are hypnotic and vital. In the sense that her voice floating over the top of a rapid guitar hastening over itself is utterly compelling. Her debut release under her own name (she plays in Bat For Lashes and used...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Colin Irwin reviews the Folk Roots New Routes festival at the South Bank Centre in London.
The Indie Credential (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
Ahh, Colin Meloy. Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that I harbour a particular fondness for The Decemberists. I’ve seen them live on a number of occasions and enjoy the theatricality of their performances and the sheer amount of activity on stage and the mad swapping of instruments. As Colin Meloy [...]
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
This was in friday's Guardian. Thought some of you might be interested to read it. Here.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Arts & entertainment: Shirley Collins developed the quintessential English folk voice in the 1960s. Jude Rogers meets her
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Jude Rogers: It's easy enough to ignore an anti-war song if it's Jack Johnson singing it. But protest music is still being made, and that's to be celebrated
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
Richard Knight speaks to the folk singer Shirley Collins who will be curating a series of folk music events at the Royal Festival Hall later this month.
Faronheit (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
Well friends, I assume if you're reading this that you did not go to SXSW like many other bloggers did. You can probably also read into this that I did not go to SXSW as well. That's fine- I'm okay with it, and I hope you're okay with not going as well. As most people shut down their sites or post the odd set of pictures featuring bands they've been seeing the past few days, I've continued to press...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Festivals are always an interesting exercise in selectivity – choosing whom you are going to see invariably means that you will miss out on someone – But I picked a reasonably balanced path through the overall fandango, given I had other time constraints which meant that I would miss some of the earlier daily sessions and the last sunday night concert. Starting with Friday night, the inaugural performance...
The Music Slut (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
Here's what to expect on April 8th: 1 Devil's Elbow 2 We Both Go Down Together 3 Evoking A Campfire Singalong (Banter) 4 The Gymnast, High Above The Ground 5 Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect & Dreams 6 Dracula's Daughter 7 Wonder 8 A Brief Introduction To Shirley Collins (Banter) 9 Barbara Allen 10 The Engine Driver 11 On The Bus Mall 12 A Skull, A Ship And A Sheep (Banter) 13 California One & Youth...
