This Nashville based artist from New Jersey was first Moonblogged with the release of her last studio LP back in 2000. This is her 6 LP proper and it is another set of brilliant and varied songcraft and with For No One she manages to produce the ultimate One for Dame Shirley Bassey.
What Would Jesus Do … if he were Pete Hegseth?
I forget who it was who said “the Christian right tends to be neither” – but it’s such a great line. In fact, staying in the area of brutal religious irony,…
How the Premier League Ate Itself
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Kemi Badenoch is the most rightwing leader in Tory history. Isn’t it time she got some actual scrutiny? | Owen Jones
The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, will march on to the conference stage in Birmingham feeling buoyed. “Kemi’s soaring,” coos the Sun, and that sums up the…
Misconceptions following Burnham’s speech
The Prime Minister’s conference speech was a week ago, but there is still plenty of confusion about how it should be interpreted. Indeed that confusion may be…
AI giants are trying to sell us the apocalypse. Don’t buy it
David’s One of my favourite bookshops. Above it is the apartment where Maynard Keynes and his wife Lydia Lopokova used to stay when they were in Cambridge.…
“It Would Almost Be Endearing if it Wasn’t So Completely and Utterly Fucking Mad”
Grace Cummings – Bloodhorse!
This Australian singer‑songwriter and stage actor was first brought to my attention by GIITTV back in 2022 with the release of her second LP, the mainly acoustic Storm Queen, and the brilliant Up in Flames appeared on Uneasy Listening 2022. In 2024 she released her third LP, produced by Jonathan Wilson, which was was very multi‑instrumental and lush and it didn’t quite manage to float my boat – it felt a bit too produced and polished.
This new LP, also produced by Wilson, has big production too, but it’s more diverse and wonderfully unhinged. And then there’s her voice which, to re-quote from Wikipedia, has been described as “commanding and magnetic”, powerful, and possessing a “devastating force”. Think a mad (or madder?) Dame Shirley Bassey at one end of her scale but also understated beauty on tracks like I’m Not Crazy.
To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button? | Marina Hyde
Another week, another chance for Nigel Farage to demonstrate his literally hysterical leadership inabilities. For a guy who supposedly valorises the wartime…
A Meditation on Train Stations
“If you weren’t here, then you won’t believe it.” Thus the gentle pronouncement of the distinguished literary scholar, walking slowly next to me in the dark,…
