January 2024 – Page 25

Sounds from beyond the Shed 126 – “Cheese Intervention”

January 5, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

New Year – same old post Christmas torpor. Welcome back readers and listeners and it’s a vaguely new format for a vaguely new year. Gone is the headline week of news and in comes the splash […]

Thea Gilmore “Thea Gilmore”

January 5, 2024 FredArnold 2

Thea Gilmore sheds the Afterlight and emerges as her own person in fascinating change of direction. Thea Gilmore is something of a national treasure, as she has produced about 20 albums in the last twenty-five years, […]

Tom Cheshire Band “I Can’t Hold On” – Still trying to though

January 5, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

We like a good pun, so had to smile that producer Randy Michael had lovingly dubbed the sound of today’s song “Johnny Clash” – rightfully pinning down that the sound evokes a combination of Joe Strummer […]

Video: Laena Myers “Give ‘Em Hell”

January 5, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Give ‘Em Hell’ is the recent single from LA singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Laena Myers. It’s an absorbing, dreamy song that was written six months after Myers’ father passed away. She explains: “We were very close. One […]

Interview: Terra Lightfoot on hiking and “Healing Power”

January 4, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mother Maybelle Carter and a Gibson SG called Veronica. While the surname may be familiar, Terra Lightfoot is a hard-working sing-songwriter and guitarist from Canada who is known for the time she spends […]

Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”

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One of our finest songwriters delivers an album for our times with consummate clarity and lyrical daring. Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties […]

Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November

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Sylvie, the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab, has announced their forthcoming album, New Season, available November 6th, 2026, via Ghostly International. Rina (feat. Alex Amen) is the single out now. Reflecting on a passing […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott

September 22, 2026 0

Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my music […]

Month: January 2024