The astoundingly talented and utterly addictive Frank Turner has just announced a UK headline tour to begin this October. The folk-punk pioneer will be touring to promote his new album ‘Poetry Of The Deed’, out on September 7th through Xtra Mile Recordings / Epitaph.
The first single from the new album, ‘The Road’, can be heard through a very sketchy YouTube video, viewable here.
The tour kicks of in October at the following venues/dates:
13 Dublin, Academy 2
14 Belfast Stiff Kitten Club
15 Glasgow QMU
16 Manchester Academy 2 SOLD OUT
17 Newcastle Uni
18 Nottingham Rock …

My how many bands are there with Wolf in their name at the moment? Nevermind the naming competition though, because the best one of the lot has turned up in the form of Wolf Gang a.k.a Max McElligot, the part German, part Irish song craftsman. I have to thank Angus over at State Management for the heads up about him a good few months ago, but shamefully that was during my law exam writing hiatus so I never got a chance to write him up at the time, with his …

Firm favourites Meursault have released their most recent EP on Song, by Toad Records. This has been available at shows for a good few months now (and I’ve been lazily sitting on it for a while – shame on me), but it finally got released last week making now a good time to finally review it.
Meursault’s debut album was a great if slightly chaotic at times mixture of electronic folk, whilst this EP falls back to a more traditional and acoustic folk sound. It is an stunningly beautiful 5 …

Some more great music from Noah and the Whale (MySpace) here from our friends at Young and Lost Club. We’ve got two remixes of the Blue Skies, first single to come from their fantastic new album The First Days of Spring.
The first remix is by TBW favourites YACHT, who have added their characteristic slight jerky electric sound to the song, keeping the hopeful feeling of the original.
The second remix by Death to the Throne transforms the song into the territory of darker skitterish electronica that would have been out of …

With the cold spell and the rain coming back to our shores, now seems a perfect time to showcase a few of the artists that showcase the other, slower, deeper and darker side of electronic music.

Pegase starts of the mix with a track that has soundtracked some of my more personal and introspective moments over the last few months after Bec over at Electrorash picked him up. Slow epic and atmospheric electronic movements demonstrating his skill makes Pegase one of the most exciting electronic artists of the moment.
Shark Speed offer …

This has been a long time coming, but today I’ve got 2 CDs worth of amazing summer music. The first disc is more folk based in keeping with last summer’s mix, with the second less folky but just as perfect for the summer afternoons in the sunshine.
We have a few of the bands that were on the last mix popping up again, but most on here have not been featured on TBW before. As I’ve been out of the game for a while, some of these have been around for …