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Video: Passenger “To Be Free”

August 21, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

We’re posting a lot of Passenger’s stuff at the moment but it is really very good indeed.  His new album Runaway is out on August 31st but this beautiful and haunting track is only available to […]

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Bobbie Gentry 8 disc box set gets release date

August 20, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

UMC has announced the release on September 21st of the first major retrospective of  Bobbie Genty, an artist who not only knocked Sgt Pepper off the top of the US Album charts but who was also one […]

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Mt. Joy “Mt. Joy” (Dualtone, 2018)

August 20, 2018 Alan O'Hare 0

Mt. Joy are currently riding the crest of a wave with over 30 million streams on Spotify for their self-titled debut album. That takes some doing. In fact, it’s got the LA-via-Philadelphia five-piece a physical release for […]

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Sons of Bill, Omeara, London, 14th August 2018

August 20, 2018 Mark Underwood 0

Sons of Bill brought their own unique brand of cosmic indie-americana to London on Tuesday night to promote their latest album ‘Oh God Ma’am.’  The record takes its title from an encounter that the band’s drummer, […]

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He Arrived by Helicopter “Cold Damn Truth” – Listen

August 20, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Formed by Christian Gibbs, there’s a story behind this band name: during a recent not so glamorous tour date one of the more successful sidemen of the group, Tim Kuhl, who had just come off a festival […]

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Video premiere: Jon Patrick Walker & Hope Davis “Your Open Hand”

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JP Walker is a talented man. His “day job” if you like is being a well-regarded actor who’s currently playing King George in the touring company of a little-known musical called ‘Hamilton’. His wife, Hope Davis, is the lead […]

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The new release by the Kurt Deemer Band is unlike most Covid albums you may have heard, predominantly becuase the “band” part has not been tuned down at all.  Not that we’ve anything against scratchy guitar […]

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