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 […]