October 2018 – Page 24

John Smith “Hummingbird” (Commoner/Thirty Tigers, 2018)

October 4, 2018 Phil Grant 0

John Smith’s history reads somewhat like the tales of the troubadours he loves. Constantly touring with his guitar strapped to his back for the past fifteen years, he has played with, and for, some of the […]

Video premiere: Miles Hunt “We Hold Each Other Up”

October 4, 2018 Jeremy Searle 1

From his new double album The Custodian, a set of thirty acoustic songs written over the last four decades out, this is erstwhile Wonderstuff main man Miles Hunt with a powerful and emotive piece. The album […]

Ethan Hanna “Welcome to the Batlands” (Independent, 2018)

October 4, 2018 Mark Nenadic 0

From Northern Ireland, though musically via New Jersey and the gutters of many a wrong part of town, here we have the debut album from Ethan Hanna. With a voice that blends Springsteen and Waits, you […]

John Prine “I Just Called to Say I Love You” – Listen

October 4, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

John Prine has put his own vibe into Stevie Wonder’s 1984 hit ‘I Just Called to Say I Love You’ in a new Spotify Singles session which was released today. He replaces Wonder’s synthesized original version […]

Track premiere: Larkin Poe “Sometimes”

October 4, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Larkin Poe have a new album coming out at the start of November: entitled ‘Venom & Faith’ it cements the pair’s move into a harder, rockier sound full of glam stomp and buckets of attitude. They haven’t […]