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CC Smugglers “Dirty Money” – Listen

June 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Following the success of their single ‘Rhythm’, which made BBC Radio 2 and 6’s playlists, and opening for the likes of Old Crow Medicine Show, Bruce Springsteen and Ward Thomas – CC Smugglers have released their new […]

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Massy Ferguson announce UK dates

June 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

If you do a Google image search for Seattle based americana-rock band Massy Ferguson, you get a lot of pictures of tractors, but regardless of that, the band are returning to the UK next month for a July […]

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Jason Isbell & 400 Unit perform on Colbert – watch

June 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

He is all over the shows at the moment (note the plural)  Consequence of Sound reports: “Jason Isbell’s new album with his band The 400 Unit, The Nashville Sound, doesn’t sound like what most people think of […]

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Video: Flotation Toy Warning “Everything That Is Difficult Will Come To An End”

June 22, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

From their new album, The Machine That Made Us, out now comes this hypnotic and slightly eerie song that sits snugly in the same bed as Mercury Rev and the Flaming Lips.  Lovely.

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Jackalope Tales “Kewpie Doll” – Listen

June 21, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Jackalope Tales are a three-piece acoustic band who brings their sound of aalt-countryand americana to South Yorkshire via Texas, Alaska, Sheffield and Dronfield.  Which is probably the first and last time we’ll ever write that sentence.  Their new […]

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More than a chilling tale, some sort of gothic-folk creation, the new song by Eric Bolander is a song that protests the treatment of the miners of the Blackjewel Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky.  The mine […]

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