Basic Country Mustard

For Tamsin Greig , a Sally Wainwright drama was a pipe dream. Until, she tells Amy Raphael , she joined a punk band and learned to play bass

Nico-voiced conjuror of Cornish drone-folk rituals

Rebecca Lucy Taylor talks choirs, cricket, Sparks, Freddie Mercury and indie sleaze

In a new city, in a new life, Caro Giles wonders if she has at last found home

After two decades tilling the soil of Louisville’s fertile underground scene, Ryan Davis is finally coming up roses. His two albums with The Roadhouse Band have placed him at the vanguard of a new wave of wry, literate bandleaders putting a fresh spin on fuzzy country-rock. “We’ve only ever followed our own North Star,” Davis tells Sam Richards, of his band’s long road to renown. “Now, for whatever reason, we’ve somehow circumnavigated the whole shitshow!”