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The Byrds’ Chris Hillman announces new album

June 29, 2017 Mark Whitfield 1

News courtesy of Stereogum this morning who report: “This fall, the Byrds’ Chris Hillman will release his first studio album in over a decade, Bidin’ My Time. It was produced by Tom Petty at his studio in […]

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Jeff Tweedy ” Together At Last” (DBpm 2017)

June 29, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 0

To some, Jeff Tweedy and Wilco were the people that made the noughties worth living with his and their shards of myopic observation and songs of equal delicacy and wanton destruction. ‘Together at Last’ is a […]

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Video: Chris Murphy “Hard Bargain”

June 29, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

From his new album Live/Solo comes this great high energy song from fiddler extraordinaire Chris Murphy.

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Darling West “While I Was Asleep” – Listen

June 28, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Since the release of their second album “Vinyl and a Heartache,” Darling West have been played more than two and a half million times on Spotify, been booked to the biggest festivals in Norway and Americanafest […]

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Erin Costelo “Down Below the Status Quo” (Seayou Records, 2016)

June 28, 2017 Phil Grant 0

Despite the protestations of countless wanabees across the world who all want their MTV, (or whatever the kids say now) being a musician is tough work. It’s difficult to tell if it’s harder in one genre […]

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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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Melissa Carper has announced her next album, ‘Borned In Ya’, which is due out 19th July 2024 via Mae Music/Thirty Tigers, ‘Borned In Ya’ is a phrase Carper heard used by Ralph Stanley to describe a […]

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Canadian collective Broken Social Scene have announced the release of their new album “Remember The Humans” on 8th May 2026 via City Slang in the UK and EU / Arts & Crafts in North America. Marking […]

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Video: Steven Page “White Noise”

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A brilliant and witty video accompanies the new song from Steven Page (once of Barenaked Ladies) that excoriates white nationalists (a good thing, obviously) in a furious power-pop style (also a good thing).  It’s from his […]

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