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Video: Darling West “Loneliness”

February 1, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

The excellent new single from Norwegian trio Darling West, taken from their equally excellent new album While I Was Asleep, out on February 16th.

News

Loose to release 20th anniversary Handsomes album

February 1, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

20 years after its initial release, the lovely people at Loose Music are celebrating the Handsome Family’s iconic record “Through The Trees” with a 20th Anniversary Edition, to be released on 9th March. With the original release receiving wide acclaim, […]

Album Reviews

Alpha Mule “Peripheral Vision” (Giant Meteor Records, 2018)

February 1, 2018 Martyn Ingham 0

Eric Stoner and Joe Forkan, both visual artists by day, come together to form a potent partnership much greater than its parts. Their website claims influence by rock, blues, bluegrass, folk and traditional country and to […]

News

The AMAUK UK americana awards – tonight!

February 1, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

The AMAUK’s annual shindig/awards ceremony takes place tonight at the Hackney Empire and we will be there to tweet the winners and losers (although everyone is a winner of course!) via our official Twitter feed here:  https://twitter.com/americanaUK  […]

Tracks

Rumer “P.F. Sloan” – Listen

February 1, 2018 Jonathan Aird 1

Jimmy Webb is playing the Roundhouse tonight.  His Souncloud presence is rather well policed, so instead  here is Rumer’s cover of the classic P.F. Sloan.

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In the smart and lively songs of Dan Bern, nuances are at work like honeybees in a hive. A busy swarm of subtleties generates a nucleus of narrative honeycomb that has more layers than an archaeologist’s […]

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Behind the Songs: Dillon Warnek “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep”

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Caught Light: Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers on time, trust and the art of letting go

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As we meet, Tony Dekker is sitting outside a café in Vancouver, Canada. It’s a fitting setting for a conversation with the Great Lake Swimmers’ frontman – calm, thoughtful and quietly attuned to the world around […]

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