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Deer Tick announce new albums for September, two of them

July 27, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

For the first time in four years (imagine life back then if you will), Providence, RI quartet Deer Tick have announced the release of not one new album on September 15th but two, creatively entitled: “Deer Tick Vol. […]

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Dino Valente “Dino Valente” (Floating World Records, 2017)

July 27, 2017 Peter Churchill 0

In February 1968 Dino Valente entered the CBS studios in Los Angeles to record what would be his only solo album. Although he was known at the time as the underground Bob Dylan, Valente probably had […]

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Video: The Strange Blue Dreams “Reverberatin’ Love”

July 27, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

From their eponymous debut album, our on October 20th The Strange Ble Dreams release this great mash-up of surf guitar, folk noir and old time.  It’s brilliant!

Live Reviews

The Hellfire Club, The Troubadour London, 20th July 2017

July 26, 2017 Martin Fisher 0

Full credit to sound guy Stacey, the venue owners and the staff for their enthusiastic running of this basement bar of a music venue in London’s West Brompton, the easy option to have the premises solely […]

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The Mountain Goats “Goths” (Merge, 2017)

July 26, 2017 David Cowling 0

Whatever concept inspires John Darnielle is almost incidental to the progress that he has made as a writer and performer. The last record was predicated on the sad tawdry circus of wrestling and this one on […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Joshua Hedley “This Time”

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Last week’s Chain Gang included a somewhat circuitous discussion of songs and albums titled ‘The Mountain’, resulting in Benjamin Tod’s version of the Steve Earle song of the same name.

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The Wandering Hearts “Wild Silence” (Decca, 2018)

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Reviewing an album which has already spent three weeks at number 1 in the UK country charts feels a bit like being the last person to get to a party that’s already been underway for some […]

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Preview: Dawn Landes to release “The Liberated Woman’s Songbook” later this month

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Singer-songwriter Dawn Landes will release a new album, ‘The Liberated Woman’s Songbook’, on 29th March 2024 during Women’s History Month. The record revisits songs featured in ‘The Liberated Woman’s Songbook’, originally published in 1971. Landes, along […]

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