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Far from the mainstream festival crowd

5330 days ago
Guardian MusicThere are a growing number of small festivals that offer personal touches and originality over superstar lineups – and excessive ticket prices. Chris Salmon rounds up 10 of the best'It's pretty standard to say that the huge festivals lack character... more info

The Imagined Village: Empire and Love | CD review

5463 days ago
Guardian Music(ECC/Proper)When they first appeared at Womad, back in the summer of 2007, the Imagined Village sounded well-intentioned but in need of serious rehearsal. The idea was intriguing - to rework folk songs with global influences and electronica to reflec... more info

Twisted Christmas | Pop review

5484 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonTwisted Christmas returns for the second year to strip the festive season of its ribbons and bows. But this year's show unwittingly exposes the real fundamentals of Christmas – boredom, selfishness and disappointment.It's a biz... more info

Label of love: Topic

5600 days ago
Guardian MusicTopic is the oldest independent label in Britain, if not the world. Not bad for a Marxist party offshoot that was started in a basementTony Engle is not a man much given to hyperbole, which is unusual in a record label boss. In fact, after 36 years i... more info

Martyn And Eliza Carthy

5611 days ago
Time Out, LondonSuperlative guitar player and sensitive and highly influential interpreter of traditional tune and song with his fiddling, accordian-playing daughter more info

The Bachelor

5695 days ago
8/1Clashmusic.net | 9/10 ‘The Bachelor’ is part one of Patrick Wolf’s coming-of-age saga. “I want to grow old disgracefully. I want to become more and more unconventional,” he says, touting the first half of what was orig... more info

[MP3] new Patrick Wolf: "Hard Times"

5721 days ago
I Guess I'm FloatingAs you've probably heard by now, Patrick Wolf is back this year with a new concept album called The Bachelor (previously The Battle) that I can finally confirm is not made up of 15 tracks named after desperate money-hungry women all competing for the... more info

The battle over British folk music

5723 days ago
Guardian MusicFolk is seen as the preserve of the left - but the right is muscling in. Colin Irwin on why this weekend will see a showdown between Boris Johnson and Billy BraggLondon mayor Boris Johnson thinks St George's Day, which falls today, has been ignored f... more info

The interview: Patrick Wolf

5727 days ago
Guardian MusicHe's Britain's most innovative, radical, creative and, yes, ridiculous, pop star, whose overt sexuality, visual flamboyance and unusual lyrics set him apart from all his contemporaries. He tells Miranda Sawyer how, at 16, and after enduring years of ... more info

Beautiful Days Festival first acts announced

5771 days ago
AltsoundsThe first acts announced for the seventh Beautiful Days festival are *The Pogues, Levellers, Hawkwind, The Saw Doctors , Gong, Lamb, Dreadzone, Imagined Village, Dub Pistols, Pendulum DJ’s, Cara Dillon, The King Blues, Eliza Carthy, Imeld... more info

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