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Antonio Lopez “Roots and Wings”

February 16, 2021 Emily Dongray 0
Antonio Lopez: mixed metaphor, stirred emotions. Frequently music and branding are so wrapped up in each other that it is hard to hear one without being influenced by the other. Discovering Antonio Lopez via marketing did […]
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Giulia Millanta “Tomorrow Is A Bird”

February 16, 2021 Russell Murphy 0
Songs of reinvention and life and tomorrows. Florence-born, now Austin-based, Giulia Millanta has produced for her seventh studio album a collection of songs almost of the dreamer, of searching, trying to determine whether the future will […]
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10 songs about infidelity

February 16, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0
Americana is known for its realism and acceptance of the vagaries of ordinary life, which certainly doesn’t lack drama and complications. Americana does not judge! No matter what your moral dilemma is, whatever stupid and ill-advised […]
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Paddy Nash “Rapture Song” – Listen

February 16, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Derry’s Paddy Nash has a new single out – ‘Rapture Song‘ – in fact it’s been out for a little while, as it was the potential antidote to Blue Monday (the third Monday of the year […]
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Video: Nathaniel Rateliff “Redemption”

February 16, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Nathaniel Rateliff’s ‘Redemption’ was originally written for the Apple Original film ‘Palmer’, now streaming worldwide on Apple TV+.  The movie follows the hopeful story of an ex-convict who forms an unlikely bond with a boy from […]

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Fruit Bats head for “The Landfill” with the new album out in June

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Celebrated artist Fruit Bats announces the forthcoming release of the brand-new album The Landfill on June 12th via Merge Records. The new offering finds Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson (who performs under the Fruit Bats moniker) […]
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As we head into the Easter hols, I was thinking that it’s been nearly three years since I took off the gown and mortar and stopped trying to educate the minds of future generations. And yet […]
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Crys Matthews “Forged In Fire” – won’t back down

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Appropriately enough, Forged in Fire, the new song from Crys Matthews, was released on No Kings Day, the new national holiday they’re having over there across the Atlantic.  The social justice warrior, proud Black woman, and […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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With the release of ‘What in the World’ Michael McDermott continues the great run of musical form that has been a hallmark of his last three releases, and which started with what could be construed as […]

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