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Misner and Smith “All Is Song”

April 29, 2024 Michael Macy 2

This album is a gem. Finely cut and polished, it has multiple facets and an inner sparkle. Like most gemstones, it has a flaw or two. ‘All Is Song’ is the sixth album of the Northern […]

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Live Review: Mary Gauthier + Jaimee Harris, The Metronome, Nottingham – 21st April 2024

April 29, 2024 Graeme Tait 4

This evening’s performance took place at The Metronome, which, since it first opened its doors back in October 2018, has fast become one of the best venues in the city of Nottingham which throughout the years […]

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Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore “We’re Still Here” – We’re still standing!

April 29, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

‘TexiCali’ is the a brand new studio album from Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and it is out June 21st via Yep Roc Records.  In advance we can point you towards the aptly-titled first single […]

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Video Premiere: Blair Dunlop “Let’s Get Out of the City”

April 29, 2024 Andrew Frolish 1

Here is possibly the most dramatic video you’ll see this year.  Reinforcing the theme of ‘Let’s Get Out of the City’ by Blair Dunlop, we see office workers at war with one another in wonderfully choreographed […]

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Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Necessary/Painful”

April 26, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader. We will see you in London tomorrow if you’re down for the next national Palestine demo, or you can find what’s happening local to you here, but in […]

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Track premiere: Colin Devlin “Water”

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Dublin-born/ L.A. based songwriter Colin Devlin is gearing up to release his sophomore LP ‘High Point’ on Friday, which is produced by Pierre Marchand (Sara McLachlan, Rufus Wainright), and he’s shared this beautiful little track from […]

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Kaia Kater “In Montreal” – features Allison Russell

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And now is as good a time as any to remind ourselves what comment we made on Kaia Kater back in 2019: “Kaia Kater is an incredibly poised performer, and her songs are complicated and subtle, […]

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Confident and considered Norwegian Americana. Norwegian Americana is alive and well and is firmly embodied in Malin Pettersen whose new album ‘Wildflower’ is a follow-up to her delightful 2020 album ‘Wildhorse’. The first thing that hits […]

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