News
NPR previews new Josh Ritter album in full
Well this is a treat for the Easter weekend – NPR are previewing today the new Josh Ritter album ‘Fever Breaks’ which is due out on Friday next week and which, of course, is produced by […]
Year: 2019
Live Reviews
Molly Tuttle + Ole Kirkeng, Night & Day, Manchester, 11th April 2019
Molly Tuttle has been creating quite a lot of noise recently and on tonight’s evidence she’s no empty vessel. Twenty-six year old Tuttle grew up in San Francisco and started to play the guitar when she […]
Album Reviews
Lucille Furs “Another Land” (Requiem Pour Un Twister, 2019)
Lucille Furs, a five piece from Chicago, have an abiding admiration for psych-influenced rock, and on the showing of ‘Another Land‘ there’s a strong Anglophile side to that admiration. It’s something that singer Trevor Newton Pritchett […]
Album Reviews
Field Medic “Fade Into The Dawn” (Run For Cover, 2019)
Field Medic, aka Kevin Patrick, clearly doesn’t give a damn. The wild hearted Californian casually screams how bad his life sucks and does it with class and a healthy does of black humour. This second release […]
Political Pops
Pick of the Political Pops: Dwight Yoakam “Suspicious Minds”
There is a small but active cabal here at Americana-UK Towers who are vociferous supporters of a little known genre of music which we term ‘Cowboy-grime-hop’. This musical back alley is chiefly notable for its heady […]