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Tremends “Now We Know” – Listen

February 27, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Now We Know’ is a ripe slice of fuzzed up guitar driven psych-rock.  Juan Rozas demonstrates a fine restraint on the guitar solos here – precise, but not flash, backed up by the booming drum sound […]
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Neil Young: “Google rip off the artist community”

February 27, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
An interesting story which went up on Stereogum last week although is the Pope a Catholic, etc. They report:”Neil Young is no fan of multinational corporations. And in a lengthy new post on his Neil Young Archives site entitled Google […]
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All The Luck In The World “A Blind Arcade” (Independent 2018)

February 27, 2018 Mark Underwood 0
All The Luck in the World are three young Irish songwriters from County Wicklow who gained a degree of attention when a home recorded song of theirs titled ‘Never’ gained a large following on YouTube back […]
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Video: Margo Price “A Little Pain”

February 27, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0
From her excellent album All American Made, this is the excellent new single from country star Margo Price.
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3hattrio “Lord Of The Desert” (Okehdokee Records, 2018)

February 26, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
Great music is often connected to the landscape it springs from and, listening to it, your imagination will immediately take you to that land. ‘Lord of the Desert’, from US folk group 3hattrio, immediately transports you […]

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Thin Lear’s tales of death and loss sweetened by delectable pop melodies. New York-based Matt Longo, aka Thin Lear, grew up writing short stories, and that narrative style pervades his Many Disappeared album. Longo says he […]
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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

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The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

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“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]
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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

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Video: Jim Ghedi “Beneath the Willow”

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This beautiful song from Jim Ghedi is accompanied by an engaging video, directed by John Carroll and featuring archive footage of Sheffield interspersed with the lovely landscapes of the Peak District.  Ghedi explains the concepts behind […]
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Track Premiere: Nickel & Rose “Americana”

July 16, 2018 0
What do you get when one musician  – Carl Nichols – steeped in American gospel music and the sounds of Senegal, Mali and Guinea teams up with a musician – Johanna Rose – who has come out […]
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Jaspar Lepak “My Right To Choose” – obviously

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Jaspar Lepack was so impressed by this song written by Cary Cooper and Tom Prasada-Rao that she had to record her own version.  The song was written in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to […]

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