Pennyblackmusic Magazine June Edition On-Line

We have recently put on-line the June edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine.

Our lead interview this month is with sixties folk/protest singer Janis Ian who speaks about her forty years of making music, her more recent career as both a journalist and writer, and her continued regular touring.

Our other main interviews this month are with Slowdive and Mojave 3 frontman Neil Halstead, who recently released his second solo album, 'Oh, Mighty Engine !'; Roddy Woomble , the singer with Scottish rockers Idlewild , who will soon put out a fan-sponsored new album, and Bella Union label boss and ex-Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde.

There are new interviews too as well with New York experimental folk collective Akron/Family ; 60’s band Herman's Hermits ; Northern Irish pop punk trio In Case of Fire ; rising hardcore group Rolo Tomassi ; Edinburgh-based post-punks/surf act Isa and the Filthy Tongues ; bedroom act Banjo or Freakout? and London-based singer-songwriter Tallulah Rendell.

Other highlights include features on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, solo artist Anthony Phillips and 80’s psychedelic/drone experimentalists Loop. There are articles on the Grateful Dead’s 1970 album ‘Ameircan Beauty’, Leonard Cohen’s 1972 album ‘Songs of Love and Hate’ and the Drop Nineteens’1992 debut album ‘Delaware’. We have plenty of live, album and single reviews as well, and the start of a new regular column ‘This Metal Sky’ in which our writer Jeff Thiessen, in the belief that all music good and bad is personal, will be writing about the links in his own life with a new piece of music he hears each month. He begins by describing his reaction to hearing New Zealand country act Steve Abel and the Chrysalids' 'Flax Happy' .

We will have another album and singles reviews up-date at the weekend and then another full edition in early July.

Please check out as well the new pod of our long-term writers, Mark Rowland, Ben Howarth and Sarah Johnson, which they have been using as a forum to debate about some of the new music we are writing about on the site. There are three podcasts on-line already which can be found on most pages of the site, and Mark, Ben and Sarah will be doing another up-date shortly.

Thank you for reading the Pennyblackmusic magazine.