Album Reviews
Shane Smith & The Saints “Norther”
With their fourth album, the band mark themselves out as someone who can provide music with not only grit, but also real heart. Globally, 2020 may have been the year that felt to most like they […]
Month: April 2024
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Neil Young “A Man Needs a Maid” – Live at the BBC, 1971
I first became enchanted by ‘A Man Needs A Maid’ when I heard a version of it on the 2007 Neil Young covers album ‘Borrowed Tunes II’. It’s a song of heartbreaking feeling as Young wrestles […]
Album Reviews
Charlie Parr “Little Sun”
An offer of clarity in an often unclear world. In the liner notes to ‘Sloth’ which is the final track on the album Parr tells us:‘There is a part of the world that exists only in […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: South By Southwest Festival 2024, Austin, Texas
In my twenty years attending South by Southwest, Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express have been there for half of them. Even when they are not going to be in town during the week of the […]
News
New Strand Of Oaks album ” Miracle Focus” due June
Strand of Oaks, aka Tim Showalter, has announced the release on 7th June of their/his latest album, ‘Miracle Focus’, via Western Vinyl. Since the release of its predecessor, ‘In Heaven’ (2021), which received a glowing review […]