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Red Rooster Festival, Euston Hall, Suffolk, 1-3 June 2017

July 20, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

Suffolk is such a green place when you live in treeless Yorkshire, every time I stray there I feel the inner workings of my soul refreshed.  Normally I wander that way once a year for Maverick, […]

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Kansas Smitty’s House Band “Movin On'” – Listen

July 20, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Here’s a new track from the people who run ‘Kansas Smitty’s’ venue in London fields which hosts ucutting-edge bands from just about every genre you can think of emerging out of the jazz world as well as their […]

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Video: Jason Wilber “I’d Love Another Saturday Night”

July 20, 2017 Jeremy Searle 2

Now this is rather nice.  Plenty of jangle, catchy as hell, just all round great from Jon Prine’s guitarist Jason Wilber, taken from his new album Reaction Time, out on August 11th.

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Josh Ritter “Showboat” – Listen

July 19, 2017 Mark Whitfield 2

The lovely Josh Ritter is back with his ninth full-length album ‘Gathering’ which comes out September 22nd on Pytheas Recordings/Thirty Tigers. Ritter will be heading out with his “Royal City” band over the course of this winter, […]

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Gian Luca & the Oak “The Flowers Never Grown” (Independent 2017)

July 19, 2017 David Stevenson 0

Gianluca Gentile is an Italian-born, London-based singer-songwriter who self released his debut EP ‘The Flowers Never Grown’ earlier this year and is backed up on the record by his talented band, The Oak. The record kicks […]

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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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Les Saules Pleureurs are not as French as they might sound – as they are Robert Paul (Severed Limb) on vocals and guitar, and Sophie Loyer (Urban Voodoo Machine) on violin.  Their approach is organic vinyl […]

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A wonderful and perhaps career-defining early offering from an artist much appreciated by his peers but dogged by a lack of commercial success. A classic is best defined as something that is judged over a period […]

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The video for ‘Woman Like Me’ gives us a glimpse of the work that goes on in the studio and the quality of the musicianship that drives the song. The line-up includes Joe Wilkins on guitar, […]

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