interview
Katy Pearson from brother-sister pop duo Ardyn talks to Craig Stevens about how the band started out, changes to their image and sound, and the comparisons she has drawn to Joanna Newsom.
The latest single from brother-sister duo Ardyn, Together, represents the start of an exciting new chapter for the band. Its Fleetwood Mac-esque harmonies and gentle, yet infectious dance beat, bring a sound altogether different from their two EPs, and a very promising first taste of their forthcoming debut album.
Following a recent set in Bristol, Katy from the band took some time to talk to us at No Ripcord.
21 June, 2017 - 23:12 — Craig Stevens
Kate Jackson, frontwoman with much-missed Sheffield five-piece, The Long Blondes, returns with her first album as a solo artist, British Road Movies. She talks to No Ripcord about the record's long gestation period, working with Bernard Butler, and the benefits of living in a small English market town.
As the Nottingham group release their latest album, The Waiting Room, Joe Rivers chats to band member David Boulter about their career to date.
Fresh from an impressive 9/10 rating in The Singles Bar for their new EP, Clock Hands, folk-influenced quartet HAWK catch up with Joe Rivers about writing, collaboration and defying categorisation.
London-based quartet HAWK are starting to make waves on the music scene. Lead singer Julie Hawk only started collaborating with guitarist Matt Harris in 2012, but already the band have gained support from several noteworthy music magazines and websites, as well as plays on BBC 6Music.
5 March, 2015 - 21:13 — Joe Rivers
Gabbie Nirenburg relives her days of running a college record label and catches up with an old friend who has a novel approach to keeping the songwriting process fresh.
When I was in college, I lived out my musician fantasies in the best way a talentless person can: helping out with a student-run record label. We called it Obedient Pony, and every semester we'd put out a compilation of the campus' heaviest talents.
3 March, 2015 - 19:31 — Gabbie Nirenburg.jpg)
With Elaine Constantine's film, Northern Soul, now in cinemas, No Ripcord caught up with funk group Smoove & Turrell to talk about all things Northern, and a little bit more.
With a film based on the 1970s Northern Soul movement having recently hit the screens (read our review of the soundtrack here), what better time to talk to Smoove & Turrell.
14 November, 2014 - 23:12 — Joe Rivers
Keeping the spirit of pre-punk alive.
Parquet Courts are back with the follow-up to their debut that wasn't their debut (things get pretty vague in Indieworld - see their website for details), 2012's Light Up Gold (or was it 2013 - impossible to say).
29 June, 2014 - 16:57 — Alan Shulman
Blues, folk, acoustic, shoegaze and pop, all in one band? Southern are all that, and more.
Thom and Lucy Southern make the kind of music you might not necessarily expect to hear from a Northern Irish brother-sister duo in their early twenties; their sound ranges from crunching, country-tinged blues to gentle, whispering shoegaze, and all that lies in between. And it's a sound that's proving popular too, as is evidenced by their rapidly growing fanbase.
29 May, 2014 - 17:05 — Craig Stevens
Following a stunning set at the Bristol leg of the Dot to Dot festival and ahead of a headline performance on the BBC Introducing stage at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, Nottingham's Indiana talked to Craig Stevens about the success she's enjoyed to date, her forthcoming debut album and lion tattoos.
Nottingham-based singer songwriter Indiana has been steadily garnering support for her music over the past couple of years. And that support took a significant step up earlier this year with the release of the disco-infused Solo Dancing.
27 May, 2014 - 19:00 — Craig Stevens
In advance of a headline set at London's Village Underground on April 19, Digitalism's Jens “Jence” Moelle talks to Craig Stevens about the group's relationship with their label Kitsuné, the wave of electronic music sweeping the US and UK, and the legend that is the Palermo Disko Machine.
Ahead of their headline set at Kitsuné's Easter Special club night on April 19, Jens “Jence” Moelle, one half of the German electronic act
10 April, 2014 - 18:17 — Craig Stevens