February 2020 – Page 5

Songs for the apocalypse: Deadstring Brothers “Blindfolded”

February 26, 2020 Mark Whitfield 2

Omg this band – does anyone remember them? Hailing from Detroit, Michigan and fronted by guitarist/vocalist Kurt Marschke, the worst thing you could say about Deadstring Brothers were that they were sometimes a bit derivative of […]

Sunday Morning arrive in UK for dates next week

February 26, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Italian Americana band Sunday Morning have announced their first-ever UK shows next month. The quartet, from the northern city of Cesena, have been picking up a raft of great reviews for their fourth album – succinctly […]

Video: Chris Maxwell “New Store No. 2”

February 26, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Quite simply, this is one of the cleverest videos you’ll see this year. A series of images, newspaper cuttings, old photographs, maps and objects are used to accompany a lovely, lyrical narrative. The ‘American Dream’ and […]

Bonny Light Horseman “Bonny Light Horseman” (37d03d, 2020)

February 26, 2020 Harold Hogan 0

Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats), and Josh Kaufman (Josh Ritter, The National) formed Bonny Light Horseman in 2018 after being invited to play at the Eaux Claires festival in Wisconsin. The success of this […]

Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, 9th February 2020

February 26, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

Having had what he described as “a biblical journey” as he battled through the worst of Storm Ciara, Canadian troubadour Stephen Fearing noted that the setting of this show, a church converted into a thriving arts […]