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Altameda “Born Losers”

April 28, 2022 Paul Russell 0

Canadian duo’s change of pace create a classic. Altameda are a duo comprising Erik Grice and Troy Snaterse and are based in Toronto and this album is all about longing to get out of town and […]

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Charlie Parr to tour UK next month

April 28, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Minnesotan legend Charlie Parr has announced his upcoming tour, including fifteen dates starting in Bristol on May the 4th. The series of gigs promote his most recent album, ‘Last of the Better Days Ahead‘. This, his […]

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Track Premiere: Bird Streets (featuring Aimee Mann) “Unkind”

April 28, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

On ‘Unkind‘ New Yorker John Brodeur confesses to being less than nice “I have paid you no mind / I have been reckless and obscene“, and then somewhat undercuts this apology by adding “that ain’t something […]

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Video Premiere: Chris Beall “Big Blue World”

April 28, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

When the pandemic put a halt to most of the South Austin Moonlighters’ touring schedule, band-member Chris Beall set out on his own, playing solo shows wherever he could.  The Texan singer-songwriter found himself energised and […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Stephanie Dosen “A Lily For The Spectre”

April 27, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Into the Haunted Woods – mind the owls. There was something in the air in the middle of the first decade of the 21st Century, with magic and vampires in vogue in fiction and film and, […]

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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

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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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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Emerging from  a near year long hibernation, Bear’s Den return with new recording ‘All That You Are’, which is not exactly a new song as Andrew Davie explains “‘All That You Are’ is a song that […]

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Star-studded debut, 60 years in the coming. Some debut records emerge blinking into the daylight without so much as a by-your-leave. There is no build-up, no genealogy, no backstory even. They seem to appear as fully […]

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Topic 80th Birthday Celebration, Cecil Sharpe House, London, 22nd January 2019

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In the ever changing world in which we’re living it’s nice to know that there are some things that can be relied on to hang on in against the odds – and one of those things […]

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