August 2018 – Americana UK

Glorietta announce debut album, UK dates (sort of)

August 31, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Always feels like when the last weekend in August starts on a Friday it should be a bank holiday but sorry, that bird has flown as they say. Console yourself dear readers with the news that […]

Josh King “Into The Blue” (Independent, 2018)

August 31, 2018 Elise Kennedy 0

Josh King’s solo debut album ‘Into The Blue’ is a deeply personal Americana album, which differs strongly from the indie-rock music he’s renowned for as the front man for the band House of Fools. A lot of […]

Music Makers americana festival returns in October

August 31, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

We have been literally (OK not literally) drowning in news of festivals with an americana “bent” in 2018 and here’s another one to add to your money woes. Music Makers is a 2-day London-based independent music festival […]

Ian Fisher “Icarus” – Listen

August 31, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

And so we go into the weekend with this laid back track, that starts quiet and builds up to a cool-seventies country influenced rock feel. It’s all the fault of the older generation – this self-taught […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Josh Rouse “Slaveship”

August 31, 2018 Paul Villers 1

This month marks five hundred years (1518) since the first direct shipments of slaves from the continent of Africa to the Americas began. Emperor Charles V of Spain sanctioned the move because the native American populations […]

Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”

September 22, 2026 2

One of our finest songwriters delivers an album for our times with consummate clarity and lyrical daring. Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties […]

Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November

September 22, 2026 1

Sylvie, the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab, has announced their forthcoming album, New Season, available November 6th, 2026, via Ghostly International. Rina (feat. Alex Amen) is the single out now. Reflecting on a passing […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott

September 22, 2026 0

Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my music […]

Month: August 2018