end of the road

Richard Hawley has announced full details of his new album 'Standing At The Sky's Edge'. The album, which is Hawley's first for his new label Parlophone, will come out on May 7. It contains a total of nine tracks and is the follow-up to his 2009 effort 'Truelove's Gutter'. Speaking about the album, Hawley said he wanted to make a simpler record and move away from the grander sounds of his previous albums. He said of the album: "I wanted to get away from the orchestration of my previous records and make a live album with two guitars, bass, drums and rocket noises!"

Richard Hawley, Andrew Bird, The Low Anthem and Dirty Three have been confirmed as the headliners of the brand new No Direction Home Festival.

The band will play the Soho Theatre in February next year

The folk star goes on a spiritual jaunt around the country

Singer's third album is scheduled to be released on September 12

Folk singer reveals details of new LP

A revealing piece from Duluth, February 2011

He's planning to release a new album this August

When The Duke & The King made their UK debut at London’s Bush Hall in May, I seem to remember there being at certain points up to about nine people on stage, including on at least one number four people playing guitars, someone on keyboards, a couple of backing singers and, of course, Simone Felice, late of The Felice Brothers, and his new musical partner Robert “Chicken” Burke on vocals. The evening also included a lot of instrument-swapping, principally between Simone and Burke, who took turns at the drum stool.

I mentioned yesterday’s that I was just off to see The Hold Steady at the Islington Academy and I duly went and they were, as ever, duly brilliant – urgent, incendiary, delirious, a symphonic juggernaut, a hurtling thing, a wholly rousing noise.