Sweeping The Nation — The round-up of the decade about to close reaches that most dread of years, 2016. You know, when Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, George Martin etc all died we were told by some in the press that as our heroes aged this would be happenin... more info

Sweeping The Nation — "That rock'n'roll, eh?" Our documentation of how we see the years of this decade in retrospect continues into 2014, the year Alex Turner made a stand for... something at the Brits. We were somehow unsurprised to find Radio X were still callin... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Onwards with our overview of the decade just passing, and today we alight on the year we were confidently repeatedly told that Jessie J was inevitably going to be an enormous international star. She did have a Billboard top ten album in 2014, but whe... more info

Nialler9 — The collective run unique music and literary events in special locations. more info

DrownedInSound — DiS caught up with David Thomas Broughton ahead of his upcoming UK tour more info

Guardian Music — A new documentary celebrates a true alt-folk underdog who dodges fame, and duets with foodstuffsDavid Thomas Broughton will do anything to avoid playing a song straight. He duets with rape alarms and jams with trains. He’s looped a heckle into... more info

Song, by Toad — Our release of David Thomas Broughton’s epic masterpiece Crippling Lack moves to Volume 2 this month, which comes out on French label NoizeMaker Records. We’ve sold our entire allocation now, so European fans should order from the NoizeMaker Band... more info

Song, by Toad — The Restless Natives Festival is happening in Glasgow in the first week or so of May, and there is an absolute shitload of excellent Toad stuff happening. About which I have no doubt you are thrilled. Just thrilled. We have a showcase, the David Thom... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — There should be a myth around David Thomas Broughton. There should be mystique. Something sinister. Darkness that spirals around his heart and mind. There could be a man with serious troubles, the kind of man who asks the same questions and makes... more info

Song, by Toad — Is conventional the new experimental?  After FOUND confusing me by releasing an album of relatively straightforward indie rock, here comes David Thomas Broughton, a man so idiosyncratic he has made a few friends of mine storm out of gigs in a rage, ... more info