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Massy Ferguson set to divide the UK next month

June 10, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Seattle based americana quartet Massy Ferguson have announced a series of UK dates including festival appearances at Maverick and Summer Tyne. For more than a dozen years, the band have planted their boots on both sides […]

Album Reviews

Mekons “Deserted” (Glitterbeat Records, 2019)

June 10, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

Forty years down the line, the Mekons remain one of the most credible bands to have emerged from Punk who are still drawing breath. One of the first outfits to recognise that authentic roots music could […]

Live Reviews

Carson McHone, the Borderline, London, 30th May 2019

June 10, 2019 Mark Underwood 1

Well into a 40 date tour, Carson McHone proved tonight exactly why Loose Records invested time and effort in recruiting her to their record label at the back end of 2018. Resplendent in a white two […]

Interviews

Interview: Gill Tee, co-founder of the Black Deer Festival

June 10, 2019 Mark Underwood 1

Gill Tee is one of the co-founders of the Black Deer Festival which takes place at Eridge Park in Kent between the 21st and 23rd of June. This year’s line up includes Band of Horses, The […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: E.G. Phillips “All I Can Share is Photos”

June 10, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

‘All I Can Share is Photos‘ is taken from the upcoming new album by E.G. Phillips ‘At Home at Sea‘.   It’s the second album from the San Franciscan indie-folk singer/songwriter and features his slyly humorous, and […]

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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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Short but sweet return from LA’s Beachwood Sparks. Beachwood Sparks and GospelBeach are a bit like Clark Kent and Superman – never seen in the same place at the same time.  Only a few weeks ago […]

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Video: Eve Adams “Nowhere Now”

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Filmed in the dry and dusty desert of the American Southwest, the new video from Eve Adams is brilliantly atmospheric. Those big skies and vast landscapes evoke epic tales of life: uncompromising, isolating, dramatic stories of […]

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Laidback, cool, West Coast country from a new Gram and Emmylou. It’s strange how a pedal steel can evoke thoughts of either a deep south dive bar full of rednecks or a trippy night at San […]

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