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Track Premiere: The Chapin Sisters “Wasting Your Time”

June 6, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Hailing from one of America’s folk dynasties, The Chapin Sisters know how to craft a song and with those sibling harmonies they know how to make it sound wonderful too.   ‘Wasting Your Time‘ is the third […]

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Video Premiere: Leaf Rapids “In the Woods”

June 6, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the new single from Winnipeg-based Americana band Leaf Rapids, whose cinematic style has been called Canadiana.  ‘In the Woods’ is a darkly atmospheric song that draws us in with its haunting melody.  Joanna Miller’s […]

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Interview: Rain Parade’s Matt Piucci on their upcoming tour and his thoughts on the Paisley Underground

June 5, 2024 Paul Kerr 1

After a two-man visit last year, Rain Parade are coming back with a full band lineup. Back in 1983, Rain Parade released one of the essential albums to come out of the so-called Paisley Underground scene. […]

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Jason McNiff “Everything’s A Song”

June 5, 2024 Peter Churchill 0

A manifesto for life from Hasting’s finest. Hastings. 1066 and all that. Oh, and the hotbed of crime that kept Inspector Foyle on his toes during the war years. For fear of mimicking the Pythons, apart […]

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The Deserters have returned! Mercury Rev announce first album in nine years, UK tour dates

June 5, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Looks like autumn is going to be golden this year as the legends that are Mercury Rev have announced a new album “Born Horses” which is due for release 6th September via Bella Union as well […]

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

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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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