Leonie Cooper
Leonie Cooper is a music and culture journalist with over fifteen years experience writing for publications such as The Guardian and NME.
The story of Linda Martell: country music’s unsung hero
When it comes to country and western trailblazers, there’s one extremely special singer whose name has been unjustly forgotten in the 54 years since...
The Unsung: Remembering The Detroit Cobras’ Rachel Nagy
Being reminded of just how great someone was by the tragic announcement of their death is a unique kind of awful, but that’s how...
Kimya Dawson’s absurdist antifolk has evolved into powerful protest music
The frantic swirl of 2001’s Strokes-led New York renaissance brought many things to UK-based indie kids, including but not limited to; a proliferation of...
The Unsung: Kathy Heideman’s rollicking groove is soundtracking pop culture, forty years later
It’s San Francisco freak folkers Vetiver that we have to thank for the re-discovery of entrancing country crooner and mysterious session singer Kathy Heideman....
The Unsung – Annie Anxiety: wonderfully unpredictable since the 70s
To remain at the sharp edge of experimental art for well over 40 years takes guts and a constantly inquiring mind – the woman...
Adrianne Lenker live in Los Angeles: a church setting for some unreleased gems
That the elegiac sounds of 1970s singer-songwriter Judee Sill are echoing around Koreatown’s imposing First Congregational Church of Los Angeles ahead of tonight’s show...
The Unsung – Dorothy Ashby’s innovative harp was the sound of emancipation
If ‘jazz harp’ sounds like the kind of thing shady government forces would use to extract top-secret information out of unwilling intelligence agents, then...
The Unsung: the strength and vulnerability of Karen Dalton
You don’t forget Karen Dalton’s voice in a hurry. A quivering, quavering thing that veers tirelessly between strength and vulnerability, for the past 60...
The Unsung – Dalida is France’s answer to Madonna
For the French amongst us (bonjour et merci d'avoir lu ceci), the name Dalida is every bit as legendary as fellow mononymous pop queens...
TREMORS// Don’t call Bria a country band
Living through a pandemic is bad enough, but add a break-up on top of it and you’ve got yourself a recipe for your own...