2018 – Page 289 – Americana UK

The Americans @Celtic Connections, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 28th January 2018

January 31, 2018 KC Vines 0

“Where are they from?” asks a friend, when I announce that I’m going to see a band called The Americans. Not such a surprising question especially when so many Scottish acts name check former colonial places […]

Ewan Cruickshanks “A Glasgow Band” (Armellodie Records 2018)

January 30, 2018 Mark Underwood 0

Ewan Cruickshanks is a keen supporter of the Glaswegian roots music scene, with a radio show affiliated to the local university, and February sees the release of his debut album. ‘Y.N.D. (Youth Never Dies),’ the instrumental only […]

Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver lay into Bruno Mars

January 30, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Well it’s always nice on a Tuesday morning to see bands falling out. Stereogum report: “Beardy folk men are apparently not big Bruno Mars fans. Earlier today, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver responded to Mars’ surprising Album Of The […]

Glen Hansard “Between Two Shores” (Anti, 2018)

January 30, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

This is the third solo album from Glen Hansard, singer/songwriter, frontman for excellent Irish rockers The Frames and actor, forever famous as Outspan Foster, the guitar player in the film “The Commitments”. This is a man […]

The Hanging Stars “On a Sweet Summer’s Day” – Listen

January 30, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

With four-part-harmonies and luscious twelve-string guitars London’s The Hanging Stars borrow a musical feeling from The Byrds for this perfect slice of psychedelic folk-rock. On a Sweet Summer’s Day is from the band’s new album Songs For […]