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Video Premiere: Connor Garvey “All These Things”

July 14, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the latest single from Connor Garvey, delivering a typically earnest performance and sincere lyricism from the Portland, Maine singer-songwriter.  ‘All These Things’ has is an engaging tune, benefiting from musical layers and flourishes, particularly notable […]
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Classic American Albums: Grant Lee Buffalo “Fuzzy”

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By 1993 grunge had reached its omnipresent, powerful, destructive peak. The huge success of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden allowed a superfluity of menial chancers toting flannel shirts and pawnshop guitars to sneak in via the […]
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Video: Jason McNiff “Fisherman’s Blues”

July 13, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0
A National guitar by the banks of a muddy river, Jason McNiff reinterprets The Waterboys ‘Fisherman’s Blues’ as a haunting rural jaunt through the American South.  If you pay close attention in the opening frames of […]
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Nate Paladino “Drown With Me”

July 13, 2022 Helen Jones 0
Confident and well formed, this is an angsty album that avoids a lot of the trappings of Americana, but remains a rewarding listen. “Every weekend ends like this / We fuck, we fight, you yell, I […]
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Jim Lauderdale announces new album “Game Changer”

July 13, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0
Americana renaissance man Jim Lauderdale has announced details of a new album ‘Game Changer’—his 35th full-length album—which features his new single ‘That Kind Of Life (That Kind Of Day),’ a rollicking ode to what Jim calls […]

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With only a few weeks to go until the 19th Gate To Southwell Festival, fans are looking forward to this four-day event in rural Nottinghamshire which runs from 2nd-5th July. The festival features more than 60 […]

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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