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Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. Did anyone spot one Steve Earle in Poker Face last night? We leave you with a track taken from the new album from Austin duo Philip […]
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. Did anyone spot one Steve Earle in Poker Face last night? We leave you with a track taken from the new album from Austin duo Philip […]
While in the fields of Avalon, lines of sight to Neil Young on the Pyramid Stage are obscured by a forest of colourful flags and the occasional inflatable doll atop a bendy stick – each marking […]
It’s something special when a debut album makes a real impact – we don’t know what to expect – a fresh experience. So when a new name manages to really nail it with their first release, […]
Back in the swim following holidays, although to be fair, it felt like an extension as I headed to Birmingham to watch England capitulate in slow motion. However, the silver lining was a wonderful gig at […]
Bob Dylan will return to the UK in 2025 for a string of dates presented by ITB, this follows his appearances here in November last year, so those of you who said “It’s probably my last […]
Colebrook Road conjure Edgar Allen Poe with their new Bluegrass single “Alone Again”. After a somber start the track leaps into overdrive with a driving banjo pushing the band forward. The song was inspired by Edgar […]
So, we don’t always get it right – speaking of Ann Liu Cannon, when she was supporting Kassi Valazza at the Slaughtered Lamb, we predicted she’d soon be headlining there. Nope – her first two London […]
There’s nothing quite like the sparks from a campfire to evoke a storytelling atmosphere. The video for ‘Nose on the Grindstone’ by Tyler Childers is moody and simple, as Childers performs by the light of the […]
The London-based Hanging Stars were formed from the ashes of jangle-rock band The See See. The Hanging Star’s frontman and lead singer, Richard Olson, found himself the only original member of The See Sees left and […]
The burly, bearded man you see hugging his Gibson J45 guitar in the video is Niklas (Nick) Meltio, who comes from Finland but is smitten by americana music. His debut album, “Desert Bound,” reflects the allure […]
Marissa Nadler will release her new album “New Radiations” on 15th August 2025 in the UK/EU via Bella Union and Sacred Bones in North America. Produced by Nadler herself and mixed by Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn […]
While in the fields of Avalon, lines of sight to Neil Young on the Pyramid Stage are obscured by a forest of colourful flags and the occasional inflatable doll atop a bendy stick – each marking […]
Tift Merritt had been a regular visitor to the UK, so it’s somewhat remarkable that this was her second gig in this country for eight years – and with Oxford behind her there was only Glastonbury […]
Part way through the gig, during her 1994 song ‘You Had Time’, Ani DiFranco, in cargo pants and crop-sleeved top, sings sweetly “How can I go home/ with nothing to say …what did you do out […]
Ahead of her upcoming release, “Hard Headed Woman”, Margo Price took a pre-emptive victory lap in Europe last week and ushered in her new era of rhinestone-studded classic country. Heralded by her single, ‘Don’t Let The […]
Sam Kelly’s take on folk music relies on a combination of reworked and mostly sped-up traditional songs and his own, often more introspective, self-writes. With the full Lost Boys band he frequently leans into a joyful […]
It’s something special when a debut album makes a real impact – we don’t know what to expect – a fresh experience. So when a new name manages to really nail it with their first release, […]
The London-based Hanging Stars were formed from the ashes of jangle-rock band The See See. The Hanging Star’s frontman and lead singer, Richard Olson, found himself the only original member of The See Sees left and […]
The burly, bearded man you see hugging his Gibson J45 guitar in the video is Niklas (Nick) Meltio, who comes from Finland but is smitten by americana music. His debut album, “Desert Bound,” reflects the allure […]
North Carolina singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey is an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history, starting in the mid-70s with Mitch Easter in the band Sneakers, then co-founding the avant-pop band The dBs […]
Uniquely talented, The Chicks (they dropped the word ‘Dixie’, of course, back in 2020, due to the word’s association with slavery), make great records (generally), perform brilliant live shows and have been no strangers to controversy […]
When this feature first appeared in these hallowed pages, it aimed to allow us writers the opportunity to advocate for an artist who we felt deserved to be more widely recognised, the only caveat being that […]
Some voices arrive like a hand on your shoulder. Bill Fay’s is one of them. “I had near/forgotten everything”, Fay sings, opening the song not with a confession, but with a kind of quiet exhale. ‘Filled […]
2025 marks 20 years since Ray LaMontagne released his debut album “Trouble”, and he’s marked that fact with not just a remastered version of it on vinyl for the first time, but also a tour playing […]
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