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Band of Horses @ Shepherd's Bush Empire

A day of second hand record shopping (that resulted in some great albums by The Go-Betweens, R.E.M, P.I.L, M Ward and Crazy Horse) was the perfect build up to catching Band of Horses live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. I was a bit nervous; their last album Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:29 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Reviews, Gram Parsons, Live, Band of Horses

Evan Dando @ 88

All pictures COPYRIGHT: Lisa Skinner Last night I was fortunate enough to be in the audience at 88 to catch Lemonhead front man Evan Dando, live acoustic. Man what a show it was! Dando was great plowing through a selection of his early tunes with a punk Read More...

Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 7:05 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Gram Parsons, Evan Dando, Lemonheads, Flying Burrito Brothers

O’Death – Head Home

This album lay around forever, its not that I wasn’t interested, I had already heard a few songs on the Daytrotter Sessions (a must for any indie music fan), it’s just it has this harshness, this grating electric country twang, that smothers the beautiful Read More...

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 3:31 PM by Lloyd | 2 Comments

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Tom Waits, Jim Neversink, Gram Parsons, Violent Femmes, O'Death, Oakley Hall

Out with the new, in with the old!

Having just completed the majority of reviews I had outstanding for that newspaper that I work for, I have this feeling of overwhelming relief. While discovering loads of great new music throughout the year is a really cool job to have, it’s amazing how Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 11:53 AM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Gram Parsons, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, pink Floyd, Patti Smith

The Transfiguration of Bill Callahan

Bill Callahan’s last album A river ain’t too much to love , which was released under his Smog moniker, was among my favourite albums of 2005. River was a deeply personal album that saw Callahan breaking free of his guises. Fitting then that 2007’s follow Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:55 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Gram Parsons, Bill Callahan

Gram Parsons - Fallen Angel

Gram Parsons is not an every day household name but he is responsible for many that are. Parsons may not have platinum selling records but that has never been an accurate measure of influence anyway. They say the Velvet Underground was seen live by very Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:19 PM by Lloyd | 7 Comments

Filed under: Reviews, Gram Parsons, Rolling Stones, dvd, Emmylou Harris

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning

Ever since I heard Gram Parsons’s early work, I have been a captivated by the voice of Emmylou Harris. What’s even better is she just keeps popping up on all the right albums: Bob Dylan’s Desire, Steve Earle’s The Revolution Starts Now, Bright Eyes’s Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:21 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Neil Young, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris

Quiet is the new loud: The Nu Folk Festival is set to thrust local alt-country stars into the limelight.

The world of folk, blues and country seems to have gained a new lease on life; nothing like a near-death experience to bring on a hive of activity. With a spring in its step, it has been churning out wonderful albums by young artists such as Devendra Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:59 PM by Lloyd | 234 Comments

Filed under: The Sick-Leaves, The City Bowl Mizers, SA Bands, Elvis Presley, Bright Eyes, M Ward, My Morning Jacket, Interview, Sonic Youth, Josie Field, Jim Neversink, Gram Parsons, Devendra Banhart, The Clash, Feature