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Video Interview: Jim Keller talks about “Daylight”

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From power pop to cult roots music songwriter via managing Philip Glass. You would struggle to script Jim Keller’s career if you were working on a piece of fiction and make it believable. He first tasted […]

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Book Review: Robyn Hitchcock “1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left”

July 23, 2024 Paul Kerr 1

1967 opens with Robyn Hitchock, aged 12, entering the English public school system, leaving the family home behind along with his model trams and trolleybuses. His has been a relatively privileged life so far, insulated, as […]

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Jeremie Albino to release Dan Auerbach produced album “Our Time In The Sun”

July 23, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Canadian artist Jeremie Albino has had something of a steep rise from Ontario farm boy to Toronto busker to opening for the likes of Shovels & Rope and St. Paul & The Broken Bones as well […]

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More People Really Should Know About: Kevin Daniel

July 23, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

As singer and the song, Kevin Daniel is happy for a while, conceivably forever. Kevin Daniel has had the full experience of a musician’s life from the bottom looking up in his 37 years on the […]

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Melissa Carper “Borned In Ya”

July 23, 2024 Guy Lincoln 0

Unique Texan voice revels in the old-times(y), again. Thirty plus years of devotion to music and music-making and three albums into a career as a solo recording artist and Melissa Carper here offers up her definitive […]

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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”

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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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In many ways it was not the best of times for Dylan – having bared his soul on ‘Blood on the Tracks‘ he’d found a release in a whole new musical direction – a direction which […]

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Minnesota-based Sellwood channels the beauty and spirit of Nick Drake. Following hot on the heels of 2023’s debut ‘Otherwise’, comes ‘Cadence to the Flame’, the second full-length offering from Minnesota-based folk artist Nolan Sellwood. ‘Otherwise‘ was […]

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