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Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real + The Americans, The Garage, London, 10th July 2018

July 18, 2018 David Fox 0

The Garage at Highbury Corner  is one of those large black sheds which holds around 600 people and it was sold out on Tuesday night for Lukas Nelson’s first big headlining gig in the UK. Already […]

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Album premiere: Simon Patrick Kerr “Doldrums”

July 18, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

‘Doldrums’ is the new album by Simon Patrick Kerr, and it aptly couldn’t come at a better time what with the absolute state of parliament this week – for the new record Kerr forgoes the rowdy psych-rock […]

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Bert Jansch restrospective for October release

July 18, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Bert Jansch, the dazzling folk guitarist who picked up Davey Graham’s torch and ran with it.  The Pentangler, the creator of themed instrumental albums, one half of ‘Bert and John‘, the surprising seventies electric guitar singer-songwriter […]

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Jim James “Uniform Distortion” (ATO, 2018)

July 18, 2018 Mike Elliott 0

“Here I stand / goin’ through the motions with the mic in my hand,” so begins the lead-off track, ‘Just a Fool’ from the new aptly-titled Jim James album, ‘Uniform Distortion.’ Like many these days, James […]

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Video: Frontperson “Tick-Tock (Frontrunner)”

July 18, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is the new single from Kathryn Calder (The New Pornographers) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (Woodpigeon) aka Frontperson.  It’s quite lovely and has an equally lovely video too.  Their eponymous debut album is out on September 21st.

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