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Track premiere: Rainbrother “Black Chemicals”

February 8, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Rainbrother were formed while frontman Bjarke Bendtsen was touring with The Migrant in Europe – he performed with a group of fellow Danish musicians and after moving back to his home turf, decided the sound was too good a […]
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Buffalo Road “Whole New Silence” (Backwater Records, 2017)

February 8, 2018 Mark Underwood 0
Buffalo Road’s third record “Whole New Silence” is described as something of a “lost album” by their record company, having first been completed in 2016 while only seeing the light of day last November. Meanwhile, the band are […]
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Colter Wall + Tyler Childers @Celtic Connections, The Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 3rd February 2018

February 8, 2018 Paul Kerr 0
Tickets for this Celtic Connections show sold out almost as soon as the gig was announced with both artists noted as the up and coming guys to watch. Wall’s debut album was helmed by the current […]
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Alela Diane “Cusp” (All Points, 2018)

February 8, 2018 Paul Kerr 0
Since her last album in 2013 (About Farewell) Alela Diane has remarried and given birth to two daughters. We mention the daughters as Cusp is, above all, an album about motherhood, even the album cover can […]
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Video: Faeland “We’re Just A Love Song”

February 8, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0
Now this is rather lovely.  From their album All My Swim, released on January 20th, Bristol band Faeland deliver a gorgeous slice of folk-pop.

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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