News
Steve Earle announces lineup for December benefit show
Not this side of the pond as it were, we’ve got Steps to co-ordinate our charity gigs and I know who I’d rather have (I suspect you might do too). Leaving you this weekend dear reader […]
Year: 2018
Album Reviews
Frontperson “Frontrunner” (Oscar Street Records, 2018)
Kathryn Calder, singer and keyboard player with The New Pornographers and Woodpigeon’s Mark Andrew Hamilton form this new duo whose debut album is a frequently beguiling mix of dreamy atmospherics with poppy vocals from Calder and […]
Album Reviews
Ben de la Cour “The High Cost Of Living Strange” (Flour Sack Cape, 2018)
Want a backstory? How’s this: Brooklyn native starts singing in dive bars with his brother a full decade before he can legally drink, drops out of high school, spends a year in Havana training with the […]
Political Pops
Pick of the Political Pops: R. Stevie Moore “Conflict of Interest”
We have little time for fossil fuels here at Americana-UK Towers. The entire roof is covered in solar panels and the former stable block now houses the wind turbine. And as stated last week we are […]
Album Reviews
Seasick Steve “Can U Cook?” (BMG, 2018)
On the official Seasick Steve website, you will find a 38-second video clip in which a hugely self-conscious and apologetic looking Steve stands propped against a water tank alongside a stack of empty pallets at the […]