Stereogum — Isobel Campbell was an OG member of Belle And Sebastian sang lead on some of that band’s best early songs. After she left, she made a lot of great music with the late Mark Kozelek. She has a catalog. Next week, she’ll release her new solo albu... more info

Stereogum — Last month, Isobel Campbell — former Belle And Sebastian member and frequent Mark Lanegan collaborator — announced a new solo album, Bow To Love, her follow-up to 2020’s There Is No Other. She shared “4136” from it at the time, and today... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Another Sky - Swirling Smoke Fascinating band, Another Sky. Coming towards a second album (Beach Day, 1st March) they never became as big as some thought they would be on arrival or that their skyscraping sonics suggested. The good thing is, they don... more info

Stereogum — Isobel Campbell was partly responsible for many of the best moments on early Belle And Sebastian records. She left that band in 2002, and she’s put together a pretty great solo career, often working with her late collaborator Mark Lanegan. Today... more info

Stereogum — Brazilian musician Rodrigo Amarante, who fronted Los Hermanos before forming Little Joy with Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, is releasing his first solo album next month on Easy Sound, a new label whose roster also includes Isobel Campbell, Vetiver... more info

Song, by Toad —  Well well, quite a few firsts for me last night at the Picture House.  Not serious ones, but well, nevertheless… I hadn’t seen Mark Lanegan solo before (although I have seen him play a gig with Isobel Campbell at the Liquid Rooms a good few ye... more info

Guardian Music — Reading/Leeds FestivalIt's more than 20 years now since the Reading/Leeds festival entered its modern era, but the event's image remains the same: a goth eating a baked potato sitting by a fire made of plastic cups. A hard rock festival with occasion... more info

Guardian Music — Leeds Metropolitan UniversityMark Lanegan has had an almost textbook outlaw passage to the black heart of rock'n'roll: heroin and crack addiction, homelessness, rehab and imprisonment and a road accident that almost killed him at the age of 20. Then,... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The atmospheric baritone. Next to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan possesses one of the few contemporary voices capable of a kind of subliminal storytelling that exists outside the realm of pure vocabulary. It’s a vocal delivery that carries w... more info

Stereogum — A year and a half ago, I had a perfectly lovely telephone conversation with Isobel Campbell, the former Belle & Sebastian member who has recorded three ultra-satisfying albums of Nancy Sinatra pastiche with Mark Lanegan. And during that conversation,... more info