In League With Paton

Neil Young's 'Prairie Wind' It's somewhat appropriate that I should return from Canada just in time for the latest release f...

My first impressions are that Toronto is a great city, although perhaps a little more similar to other US cities than I had expected. There ...

Well sod the dispute over their leader’s nationality, I’m simply delighted that Antony and the Johnsons picked up the Mercury Music Prize ...

The sublime being ‘Year Of Meteors’, the fourth album from Seattle singer-songwriter Laura Veirs , an album which, quite unfairly in my view...

Lots to write about at the moment – especially as posts have become infrequent due to photoshoots, rehearsing and housewarming parties among...

Readers of this blog might be interested in the tracking list I've just set up at Rate Your Music for the best albums of the year so far...

Two artists who have kept on doing their thing to little or no fanfare release new albums this month – Manchester’s Alfie and former Longpig...

There's a plethora of potentially superb releases still to come this year: August New Pornographers - Twin Cinema Laura Veirs - Year Of ...

It’s been absolutely ages since I’ve written anything about cinema – but don’t think that’s because I’ve stopped attending films. So far in ...

...But a plethora of excellent releases from solo artists make up for it. I had been hoping to post a review of the Old Crow Medicine Show ...