Nina Whiteman is an innovative composer whose creative spark is derived from unusual stimuli. We catch up with her to find up what's in store for her premiere in Scotland next week...
Eccentric songsmith Oly Ralfe has been flirting with the stranger ends of folk, country and indie for well over a decade. Now he's turned his hand to a solo instrumental piano record...
Jim Ottewill goes head on with mystical pop soothsayer Julian Cope…
Singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan spent several years perfecting her craft on the London gig circuit before hooking up with Ed Sheeran in 2011 to pen a number one hit for One Direction. Here, she tells us how it changed her life...
Superstar albums aside, consumers love choice, writes Rhian Jones on the rise of playlists and their growing power to shape artist, label and publisher success.
Incredible String Band's Mike Heron on setting up the UK's first folk all-nighter, travelling to Woodstock with Ravi Shankar and how British beatniks have changed since the sixties...
We get an inside view of Austin, Texas, from one of Britain's most anarchic bands...
With The Wave Pictures steadily surfing their own strand of boozy, bluesy lo-fi indie for more than a decade now, we thought it was high time we learned what tracks float their boat...
Bristol country soul sensation Yola Carter is on the cusp of blowing up in 2017 - we quiz her on breaking country music stereotypes in two…
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