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Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra announce 6th album and UK tour dates

July 31, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been performing without regard for genre boundaries for over a decade now. Nodding to rockabilly, blues, country, swing, soul and more into their musical gumbo, but sounding mostly […]

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Video: Shane Smith and the Saints “Wheels”

July 31, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Life on the road in grainy black and white, Shane Smith and the Saints release a new video for ‘Wheels’.   The band lets fans take a glimpse at life behind the scenes and the players getting […]

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Folk Tracks Roundup, July 2024

July 31, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, it’s still July so as we head into the depth of Folk Festival season – Cambridge just behind us, Sidmouth on the horizon as well as the (admittedly unverified) approximately 139 or so other folk […]

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Review: Hard Day’s Night Exhibition, The Beatles Story, Albert Dock, Liverpool – 10th July 2024

July 31, 2024 Barry Jones 8

AUK’s Barry  Jones gets a sneak preview of the latest addition to The Beatles Story permanent exhibition in Liverpool’s Albert Dock. And in case you were wondering why,  in the words of our editor Mark (a […]

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Ledfoot “Outsiders”

July 31, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

The artist formerly known as Tim Scott McConnell sketches portraits of characters on the outside of life looking in. “Outsiders” is the next step down a path that appears to be the right one for Tim […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

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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Video Premiere: Lynne Hanson “Hip Like Cohen”

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Taking Leonard Cohen as inspiration, the new single from Ottawa-based Lynne Hanson is an upbeat, feel-good song that will leave you smiling.  Phil Shaw Bova’s foot-tapping percussion and  Blair Michael Hogan’s pulsing bass give the song […]

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Sophie Gault “Baltic Street Hotel”

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Echoes of Americana icons in an impressive follow-up album. Two years after her debut ‘Delusions of Grandeur’, released under the moniker Sophie & The Broken Things, Sophie Gault returns with ‘Baltic Street Hotel’, a worthy follow-up […]

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Harvey Russell “Pure as the Flame”

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Australian country roots artist shows progression on his sophomore album, all about life’s challenges. Harvey Russell hails from Sydney and ‘Pure as the Flame’ is his sophomore album, which suggests that he is a relative newcomer […]

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