August 2019 – Page 19

Birds of Chicago set to tour through the Brexit deadline

August 13, 2019 Mark Underwood 2

The last release by Birds of Chicago ‘Love In Wartime’ may prove to be a prescient title before too long given reports from the UK food industry that in the event of a no-deal Brexit the […]

Dusty Wright “Book Of Tears” – Listen

August 13, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Dusty Wright is a New York based folk/Americana singer-songwriter, and ‘Book of Tears‘ is taken from his eighth album ‘Can Anyone Hear Me?‘ On the music scene since the ’80s, he’s played CBGB’s, of course, and […]

Video: The Bobby Tenderloin Universe “Sandpaper One Side, Rubber On The Other”

August 13, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

This is a wonderful eerie and not a little disturbing video. The song is taken from Bobby Tenderloin’s eponymous debut album which is out in the autumn. It’s gritty, slightly psychedelic, and a little opaque lyrically, […]

Americana acts cover David Berman songs in tribute – Watch

August 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

With thanks to BrooklynVegan for highlighting this – tributes are still coming in for David Berman who died last week (we now know sadly from suicide) and some artists have covered songs from Silver Jews over […]

Frank Turner “No Man’s Land” (Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records, 2019)

August 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

The title of Frank Turner’s eighth album is a bit of a pun as the thirteen songs it consists of all are stories of women. No men. Get it? On ‘No Man’s Land‘ Frank Turner sets […]