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South By Southwest Festival 2018, Austin, Texas

March 29, 2018 Oliver Gray 0

The annual jamboree that is Austin’s South by Southwest Festival plows on with over two thousand artists descending on the town for a week long binge and that’s just the music. With film, gaming and politics […]

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Video: Okkervil River “Pulled Up The Ribbon”

March 29, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

Something epic to end the weeks videos, this is the new single from Okkervil River, taken from their album In The Rainbow Rain.  Have a good Easter everyone, more videos on Tuesday.

Album Reviews

Will Stewart “Country Seat” (Cornelius Chapel Records, 2018)

March 28, 2018 Elise Kennedy 0

Will Stewart’s debut solo album ‘Country Seat’ explores his southern roots, with folk-rock being the foreground for the piece.  The album takes Stewart’s musical influences from many artists, including Neil Young, with the electrified moments and […]

Live Reviews

Jonathan Wilson, Omeara, London, 19th March 2018

March 28, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Omeara is a fairly new venue south of the river, not very far south, and in quite a hip area with a sizeable presence of pubs and cafes close by. Inside the performance space is bijou, […]

Album Reviews

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers “Years” (Bloodshot Records, 2018)

March 28, 2018 David Stevenson 0

Following on from their great success and widely-acclaimed debut ‘Sidelong’ released in 2015 which led to the band being signed to Chicago-based Bloodshot Records, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers have returned with their own sophomore effort […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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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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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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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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Steve Grozier has had the four songs which make up the Take My Leave EP knocking around unrecorded for more than a decade. Not stuffed, half forgotten, in a draw like some embarrassing half finished first […]

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Ray Davies “Americana” (Sony, 2017)

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Ray Davies return with his first album in a decade, if we discount the various Kinks collaborations and choral reworking.  It stands as a testament that everything changes and nothing changes since Working Man’s Café dropped […]

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