Reviews
Down in Jamaica: 40 Years of VP Records
Jamaican record producer Vincent Chin began in the jukebox trade, establishing the iconic Randy's Records shop at 17 North Parade...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: March/2020
Of Hard Times and Harmony
Windborne are hailed as “the most exciting vocal group in a generation,” singing songs of social justice, past and present....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022
Haven
We Banjo 3's infatuation with bluegrass puts down its deepest roots yet in this fervent follow-up to 2016's String Theory....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2018
Encyclopedia of Arto
A founding member of seminal New York ‘no wave’ band DNA and long a guitar-shredding pivot of New York's downtown...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2014
This Too
For the follow-up to their acclaimed debut album Free One in 2017, this Glasgow-based instrumental ensemble of fiddlers Laura Wilkie,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2022
Entity
This album is from Belgium, a nation seemingly adept at encouraging musical collaborations between different communities – Voxtra's The Encounter...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2017
Lost Causes
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird have come on a long way from their 2005 debut album The Broken Tongue...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011
What's Left of Spider John
Spider John Koerner is championed in Bob Dylan's Chronicles memoir – the two young men used to play the Minneapolis...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Layers of Ages
Since he left Steeleye Span in 2013, Peter Knight's major musical preoccupation has been Gigspanner. (The name refers to that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2015
Cerdd Dannau
Welsh poetry is famously complex, its success depending on the strict deployment of stress, rhyme and alliteration. Welsh traditional music...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2014
