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Diana Jones announces new album, UK dates

March 11, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Nashville singer-songwriter Diana Jones has announced a new album ‘Song to a Refugee’ which is due out April 24th on Proper Records in the UK, followed by some UK dates in May and June. Acclaimed for […]

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Boxes “Why Don’t You Listen” EP (Independent, 2020)

March 11, 2020 Peter Churchill 0

Boxes are a four-piece Manchester-based band that, having played their way around most every venue that their home base has to offer, are now hoping that the release of their debut EP ‘Why Don’t You Listen’ […]

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Brendan & the Strangest Ways “We Can Beat Mercury” – Listen

March 11, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

As part of his landmark series ‘Cosmos‘ the great Carl Sagan made a characteristically softly spoken and reasoned analysis of astrology, and found it was bunkum wrapped up in hokum.  No doubt he’d approve of Brenden […]

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Video: Jason Tyler Burton “Comment Section”

March 11, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

This is the first single from Jason Tyler Burton since the acclaimed 2019 album ‘Kentuckian’.  It’s a simply-structured acoustic piece all about the hatred and poison to be found online.  Many of us now avoid comments […]

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The ten worst Johnny Cash tracks

March 10, 2020 Mark Nenadic 3

Johnny Cash was a force of nature. There are not enough superlatives in the dictionary to do the man any kind of justice. J.R. was a magnificent songwriter. Just as magnificent, perhaps even more so, was […]

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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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