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Tanbark “Heart-shaped Locket” – Listen

June 11, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Never will a distinctive vocal be deemed less than interesting here at AUK and Chloe Nelson’s  vocals are nothing less than distinctive.  She is one half of Tanbark which started in 2011 as a long-distance songwriting […]

Album Reviews

The Alvarez Theory “The Alvarez Theory” (Independent, 2019)

June 11, 2019 Tim Martin 0

Starting life as a solo project for Diana (Dee) Diehl, The Alvarez Theory have produced an album of gentle, intimate songs. The band describe them as “tales of small-town heroes, barflies & gunslingers, heart breakers & […]

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Video: Lonesome Shack “No Way Back”

June 11, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

This is from London by way of Seattle trio London Shack’s latest album “Desert Dreams”, out now.  Hypnotic, spaced out  desert-rock style country blues, it’s very good indeed.  The video is fabulous too – shot backwards […]

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Yunger “Of Journeys and Other Longings” (Independent, 2019)

June 10, 2019 Andrew Frolish 0

Summer is coming and, if you’re looking for a soundtrack to accompany you on your travels through those hazy, sunny days, then you may well have found it in the dreamy indie-pop folk of Yunger’s first […]

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Greg Felden “Made of Strings” (Independent, 2019)

June 10, 2019 Dave Clarke 0

Already an established musician in America, where he is based in Los Angeles, this is Greg Felden’s full length debut album. His choice of producer here is significant – Al Sgro who began his professional career […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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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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Video Premiere: Rosy Nolan “Your Kinda Lovin'”

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Here’s the premiere of ‘Your Kinda Lovin’, a slow, heart-aching ballad from Californian singer Rosy Nolan. It’s a bittersweet song of longing and regret, of desire and surrendering to a situation that you know isn’t good […]

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Yung Wu “Shore Leave” (Bar/None Records 2018)

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An album from 1987 which sold less than 5,000 copies on release, this is essentially a side project by the percussionist from the band, the Feelies –Dan Weckerman here taking the role of lead vocalist and […]

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Track Dogs kick off tour in support of new album ‘Fire on the Rails’

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Genre-crossing, Madrid-based Irish-English-American quartet, Track Dogs, have announced tour dates starting this Friday through to February 29th, in support of their acclaimed new album, ‘Fire On The Rails’.

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