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Andrea Ramolo “Italian Summer” – non si lavora più per una settimana o due

August 9, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Just to prove – should such proof be needed – that not all of the singer-songwriter output is doom laden and melancholic Canadian Andrea Ramolo has a new single out, and it is focused on dreams […]

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Video Premiere: Krissy Matthews “Grateful”

August 9, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

We’re pleased to share the premiere for the new video from Norwegian-British singer-songwriter Krissy Matthews. ‘Grateful’ references many of the challenges everyday people face, from prejudice to financial hardship, before encouraging listeners to be thankful for […]

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Something for the weekend: Billy Bragg “Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained”

August 6, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dearest of readers and we leave you with a track from the newly announced record by Billy Bragg ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’, his 10th studio album […]

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Interview : Don Gallardo on surviving COVID and writing his lockdown album

August 6, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Nashville’s Don Gallardo was almost an honorary European for a time as his last tour coincided with the first lockdown. If Don Gallardo has kept a diary of his plague year, it certainly has a riveting […]

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Laney and the Bird Dogs “Through the Smoke”

August 6, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

The fourth album from Montana’s modern bluegrass quintet Laney and the Bird Dogs is about survival and optimism. Since forming in 2013 in Bozeman, Montana’s Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs have toured extensively in the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

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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Singer-songwriting at its most imaginative and mischievous. Canadian Matt Patershuk, is a storyteller. A storyteller in the best traditions of the singer-songwriting genre. But this storyteller tells tales with a twinkle in his eye and the […]

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Songs for the apocalypse: Eef Barzelay “The Ballad of Bitter Honey”

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It feels either appropriate or misplaced to run a feature about the “apocalypse” when everything feels a bit end of the world-ish right now, but anyway, in for a penny…  Eef Barzelay is the voice and […]

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