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‘The Twang Factor’ presents: St. Mary, St. Michael

November 10, 2020 Clint West 0
Welcome to Week 7 of the first series of ‘The Twang Factor’. Our guest this week is St. Mary, St. Michael from Cincinnati, Ohio. Describing themselves as ‘indie-folk’ the band provide a platform for the work […]
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E.Z. Shakes “The Spirit” (Pow Pow Sound, 2020)

November 10, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0
South Carolina’s EZ Shakes return with knowingly titled album number two, ‘The Spirit’. You can be forgiven for not being aware of their earlier work as they are only just beginning to find an audience beyond […]
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Chris Pierce “American Silence Is A Crime” – Listen

November 10, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Chris Pierce does that voice and guitar and the truth thing, and does it with style on his new single ‘American Silence is a Crime.’   It’s the folk troubadour tradition of singing the news, and by […]
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Video Premiere: Lena Anderssen “Aimee”

November 10, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
We are delighted to share the video premiere of the new single from  Faroese-Canadian artist Lena Anderssen.  ‘Aimee’ is the second single from forthcoming album, ‘State of the Land’.  Anderssen recorded the new album with the […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Ayo Bamidele

November 9, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
Through our occasional mini-gig series, we have been spreading a little light in a gloomy world.  As well as the joy of seeing different performers, it’s a way of connecting artists to listeners, both old and […]

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The Krickets “If You Only Knew”

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Technically excellent but emotionally bereft album from Gulf Coast female trio. Catching up on If You Only Knew, released by all-female trio The Krickets in October 2025, is like being battered with the world’s softest pillow. […]
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I’m back from 3 weeks of glorious touring around the Iberian Peninsula in the van. A total of 2,400 miles as we circled the entire country with a brief excursion into Portugal, and every single mile […]
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Kris Drever “Doing This For Love” – anything, anything

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Kris Drever – known for both his solo work and as part of Lau – returns with his first solo record in six years, and this is the title track from it.  It’s a song about […]

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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The Bull Brothers “This Is What Happens “ (Independent, 2018)

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Pinewood “All Things With Symmetry” (Independent, 2020)

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Pinewood is songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Kempe whose debut EP ‘All Things With Symmetry’ is the perfect lockdown music. Listening to these four atmospheric folk-rock pieces feels like breaking through dense woods into a brightly […]

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