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Terra Lightfoot “Paper Thin Walls” – Listen

August 17, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Paper Thin Walls’ is the new single from Terra Lightfoot’s upcoming studio album ‘Consider the Speed’ which will hit the streets on October 16th, on Sonic Unyon Records.  It’s the first new studio recordings from Lightfoot […]

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Video Premiere: Billy Raffoul “What Makes a Man”

August 17, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the video premiere of the excellent new single from Billy Raffoul.  He launches immediately into a harmonica blast and a forceful acoustic strum for this plea against systemic racism, “You should have gotten three […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Ola Belle Reed “High on a Mountain”

August 17, 2020 Tim Newby 2

Sometimes that which connects us musically can be described as loose at best.  This week’s instalment in Chain Gang, while a tenuous connection to last week’s ‘Wreck on the Highway’ by Roy Acuff, instead reveals a […]

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Little Sparta “Lost Boat Party EP” (Grey Gallery Records, 2020)

August 17, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

British alt-folk trio Little Sparta have reunited with Sally Timms, the Chicago-based singer from post-punk outfit The Mekons, for this four-track EP. The first time they collaborated was on the ‘Best Intentions’ single, in 2008, although […]

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Track Premiere: VanWyck “Your Favourite Tune”

August 17, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Today’s song premiere comes from Amsterdam, with VanWyck’s first single from her upcoming album ‘God is in the Detour‘.  It is an album that has come to be through the pandemic, with the time to pull […]

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