Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention's Judy Dyble preps new LP w/ Andy Lewis (stream "He Said/I Said")

Lewis, who has worked with Paul Weller and Blur, helps to take Dyble back to the late ’60s for an album of magic hour folk pop that plays to her strengths and heritage.

Dave Swarbrick (Fairport Convention), RIP

Sad news: multi-instrumentalist Dave Swarbrick of legendary British folk rock band Fairport Convention has passed away. He was 75.

Ian Anderson performing 'Jethro Tull - The Rock Opera' on US tour; Steeleye Span touring too (dates)

Ian Anderson, frontman and flautist for progressive rock legends Jethro Tull, is going on a US tour this fall performing his new “Jethro Tull” rock opera, which is based off of the English agricultural inventor Jethro Tull, who the band is named af…

Gene Clark 'No Other' tribute show w/ Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear & Walkmen members full set video (watch)

‘No Other’ tribute at MHOW (more’s 1974 solo album, No Other, was paid tribute to on a tour with an indie supergroup that featured members of Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, The Walkmen, Wye Oak, Fairport Convention and others…

Gene Clark tribute @ MHOW in pics (PART 3) -- Iain Matthews (Fairport Convention) & Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak) & more

Mr. Scally, 31, first heard “No Other” in 2004, when he began collaborating with Ms. Legrand; her father gave her the L.P. “I thought it was one of those classic rock records like ‘After the Gold Rush,’ one of those well-known canonized great records,” Mr…

Gene Clark tribute @ MHOW in pics (PART 2) -- Hamilton Leithauser (The Walkmen), Victoria Legrand (Beach House) & more

After The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser crooned the country-rocker “From a Silver Phial” and the album-closing “Lady of the North,” the whole ensemble returned for an encore that kicked off with a vibrant rendition of The Byrds’ jangly “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better…

Gene Clark tribute @ MHOW in pics & review (PART 1) -- Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear) & more

Gene Clark‘s 1974 solo album, No Other, was dismissed by critics at the time as being bloated and overproduced but in recent years has become a lost classic…
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