Nashville

Earlier this month, Dublin-born musician CMAT released her debut album, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, to much acclaim. I don’t know about you, but I, for one, have been biding my time. Waiting for this album. Wishing. Hoping. Praying that it…

Saddle up for a wonderfully scattershot edition of NO POPCORN with all of the wild energy of Robert Altman's dizzying ensemble Nashville. An epic episode in honour of a truly epic film that captures the madness of the American country…

Maxwell James may hail from Wales but he brandishes an American musical heart no less earnest than any other Nashville hopeful. His debut EP weaves the familiar threads of classic Americana – blues, country, a touch of rock – with, for…

It’s the Stooges contrary, opening lyric from this record’s first single that kind of sums up Sophie Allison’s themes throughout her debut proper: “I don’t wanna be your fucking dog/ That you drag around…” It’s a realisation - an admission…

In November 1973 country music was rocked by the murders of two of its stars in Nashville. Banjo supremo David Akeman and guitar slinger James Phillip Widener died in similar violent circumstances just weeks apart and it put a whole new…

In Minute By Minute, we analyse long form music films and documentaries, pausing the chosen subject as each minute unfolds in a bid to make sense of it all. In this edition, we turn our attention to good ol' boys Kings of Leon and their…