Features
Forgotten Artists – The Subdudes
Few bands in this day and age can claim to be truly unique but The Subdudes may have a better claim than most. Their music is a curious blend of folk, country, gospel and blues flavoured […]
Year: 2020
Album Reviews
Kim Richey “A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer” (Yep Roc, 2020)
Kim Richey’s ‘A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer’ is a 20th-anniversary edition of her 1999 album ‘Glimmer’. And here’s the dilemma: should this album be reviewed as a comparison to the original? Or should […]
Videos
Video: Craig Greenberg “All the Hate in the World”
This is a melodic piano-driven song from New York-based Craig Greenberg. A political song, it was written as a response to the election of President Trump. Greenberg explains: “I wrote the song in 2016 and it […]
Features
Songs for the apocalypse: Josh Rouse “Streetlights”
Back in 2005, Josh Rouse released an album called ‘Nashville’ which along with its predecessor ‘1972’ (great year) many consider to be the greatest musical achievements of his life – laidback almost dreamlike in its production, […]
Album Reviews
Anna Lynch “Apples In The Fall” EP (SJ21 Music, 2020)
It’s been seven years since Anna Lynch released her debut album (little heard but first-rate) and returns with this poignant EP steeped in American rurality. A wanderer around her country, her roots in the apple growing […]