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AUK Chain Gang: Flatt & Scruggs “Iron Curtain”

June 1, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

When Keith Hargreaves steps out of his shed of an evening and looks up, what does he see?  Stars.  There are a lot of stars, the greatest number inhabit the Main Sequence – they are your […]

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Book Review – Jonathan Taplin “The Magic Years: Scenes From a Rock-and-Roll Life”

June 1, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

A book that asserts music’s power to bring change. Former A-list road manager, movie producer, investment banker, professor, technological inventor, and writer, Jonathan Taplin’s memoir tells you more about his life and times than about the […]

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Ian George “Post-Corona” – Tongue in cheek art-folk listening

June 1, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

A song looking to the near future, a world where we can get back to normal – and there’s a lot to decide not to do in those time, and the first priority as Ian George […]

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Video Premiere: Zoe Fitzgerald Carter “Below the Waterline”

June 1, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

We are drawn into ‘Below the Waterline’ by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter’s lovely vocal melody and the narrative details that tell a story in song.  That story is familiar to many: a memory of young love that […]

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Something for the weekend: Bob Dylan “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”

May 28, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it for this week dear reader – amazingly it looks like we might actually get some sunshine for the bank holiday weekend, although as always with our weather don’t put a bet on it […]

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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”

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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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It won’t have escaped the attention of UK based readers that it’s been a tad warm of late. So warm has it been, in fact, that we have taken to The Bunker at every opportunity to […]

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Track Premiere: Brad Byrd “Sunset Girl”

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This track premiere features a song that is taken from Brad Byrd’s fourth album ‘Phases’ which will be out on May 3rd.  It’s an album of contrast with an amplified rock song one minute and a stripped-down […]

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