Performing pastoral British folk with a veneer of electronics and a knowing nod to the burgeoning freak folk scene the Memory Band is the creation of musician and songwriter Stephen Cracknell A former bass player with Badly Drawn Boy and proprietor o…

Who was the second biggest selling music star to come out of Liverpool after the Beatles It wasnt Gerry the Pacemakers or Billy J Kramer the Dakotas nor was it the Searchers It was Cilla Black a one-time coat-check girl from the Cavern Club who wa…

Thomas Dybdahl (born 1979 in Sandnes, Norway) is a Norwegian musician in singer/songwriter tradition.

Ian Love was born and raised in New York City where he got his first guitar at the age of 11 By his early teens he was playing in a punkhardcore band called Burn while attending the prestigious High School of Performing Arts After a little over a yea…

In 2003 Malcolm Middleton the member of Arab Strap regularly credited with most things musical released the cumbersomely titled solo album 514 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine issued through Chemikal Underground Two years later he followed it…

Matthew Barber grew up in Toronto on oldies records and Top 40 radio By high school he was a classic rock freak and had embraced indie music by the time he reached college It was around this time that he started fueling his influences into some furio…