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18 shares Blondies chart-topping success led to an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, a NME Godlike Genius Award in 2014, a Q Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2016, the 2017 Silver Clef Outstanding Achievement Award and more than 45 million albums sold worldwide to date.  Blondie is one of those rare bands whose influence and impact can be felt across a half dozen musical styles, says editor Rantz Hoseley. Their story: The book will follow their rise from the ...

Blondie will release a brand new graphic novel later this year. The book is named Against The Odds and finds the New York icons working alongside Z2 Comics. Due for release in Autumn, it will incorporate references to some of their most iconic tracks, alongside a few deep cuts. Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti pen the tome, following their lauded work on DC Comics character Harley Quinn. Its set to be a busy year for Blondie, who are also set to collate their work in Cuba back in 2019 for shor...

The Accidentals make their virtual debut at the Me&Thee The Michigan based group will be online Friday Submitted content The Accidentals will make their me&thee debut on its virtual stage on Friday, February 19 at 8 p.m. The Michigan based group features an eclectic mix of indie-folk, pop, bluegrass, rock, and classical music. Their music has garnered recognition from fans and music critics alike. The Accidentals engage their audiences with their music and authentic stage presence.  This virtu...

"Braver Than We've Been Before!" The Staves Interviewed

On their third release, the Watford trio’s beautiful songwriting thrums with frustration at powerlessness and passivity

Multimedia Journalist The Staves say they shed tears during the recording of their new album following the sudden death of their mother and several other major events that set their lives into a tailspin over the past few years.  The sister trio of Camilla, Jessica and Emily Staveley-Taylor have just released their third album, Good Woman, and it’s a cry of defiance in the face of heartbreak, the end of love, a sharp rebuke to self-imposed expectations, and a celebration of womanhood itself...

On Good Woman, The Staves get grittier, but their voices remain pure magic  In their new album, this trio of singing sisters, whose fans include Tom Jones and Bon Iver, reflect on the latest upheavals in their lives The Stavely-Taylor sisters new album sees them explore motherhood and heartbreak Credit: Handout The Staves are a trio of singing, songwriting sisters from Watford: Emily, Jessica and Camilla Stavely-Taylor. In common with other siblings who have grown up vocalising together, their...

Album: The Staves - Good Woman | reviews, news & interviews Album: The Staves - Good Woman Album: The Staves - Good Woman The Staveley-Taylors kick over the traces by Liz ThomsonThursday, 04 February 2021 Sing out, sisters The Staves – Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor – have routinely been described as “an indie folk act”, and while the term folk has undergone a lot of stretching over the years the band’s first two albums – Dead & Born & Grown and Good Wo...

The Staves Branch Out with Their Hearts Intact on Good Woman Published Feb 04, 2021 7 It was quite a year. Between the death of their grandmother and mother, a bad breakup, a pregnancy, and an unprecedented reckoning with their identity as a band, the Staves (composed of sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor) spent 2018 in mourning, in celebration, and — more than anything else — in solidarity. Not much afterwards, the sisters found themselves committing to record another albu...

Reviews / / 04 · 02 · 2021 Six years is a long time to leave between albums, but one listen to the title track and opener for the third full-length from The Staves reveals both all that can change with the passing of time and all that remains from the things that have made this trio of sisters such a potent and wonderful musical force over the last several years. Still in place are the ubiquitous beautiful harmonies, clever, sometimes sweet and sometimes biting lyric...