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Video: Jason McNiff “Midnight Shift”

July 19, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0
From his forthcoming album Joy And Independence this is a great new song from London’s Jason McNiff which takes as it’s starting point the much missed 12 Bar Club, which will be familiar to many AUK […]
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I See Hawks In LA “Live And Never Learn” – Listen

July 18, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Musically and lyrically imaginative I see Hawks in LA have recently released their latest album, of which this is the title track.  They start a UK tour tomorrow night in London the tour has dates through […]
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Album premiere: The Heart Hunters “American Eclipse”

July 18, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Just like the buses, we have no album premieres for weeks and then two come along in the one day, and this is rather ace. Heart Hunters is Drew de Man’s new project with his wife, singer/songwriter Brianna […]
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Rebekah Rolland “Seed and Silo” (Sky Island, 2018)

July 18, 2018 Mark Nenadic 0
Spoiler alert – the album title pretty much gives the game away here. Inspired in part by the original homesteaders of the Nebraskan prairies; also from Rolland’s involvement with the National Parks Service in the USA, […]
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Arthur Buck “Arthur Buck” (New West, 2018)

July 18, 2018 Steven Howlett 0
Arthur Buck is the coming together of erstwhile REM guitarist Peter Buck and singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur. There was a time back in the 1980s when Buck was knocking on the door of rock royalty. Since the […]

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With only a few weeks to go until the 19th Gate To Southwell Festival, fans are looking forward to this four-day event in rural Nottinghamshire which runs from 2nd-5th July. The festival features more than 60 […]
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Live Review: Cowboy Junkies, London Palladium, London – 11th May 2026

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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