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Something for the weekend: World Party “Put the Message in the Box”

March 15, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a track from World Party, the band fronted by its one consistent member Karl Wallinger who died earlier this week, and […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 135: “Bureaucracy gone mad..”

March 15, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Having spent most of the last 15 years in education I am well aware of how things have changed for the good in terms of safeguarding and the protection of children in society particularly in institutions […]

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Boom!… Apologies. Explosions in the Sky announce UK and European dates

March 15, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 1

Following excellent reviews for their new album “End”, and a sold-out international tour last year, Explosions In The Sky have announced news of UK & European live dates and festival appearances in August including headline performances […]

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JJ Grey & Mofro “Olustee”

March 15, 2024 Tom Harding 0

JJ Grey keeps a steady hand on the tiller. After a nine-year hiatus, Florida native Grey returns with an album of heartfelt hymns and soulful expositions to life’s purest pleasures that’s as bright and breezy as […]

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Live Review: John Alexander Album Launch. The Glad Café, Glasgow – 8th March 2024

March 15, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

Although it’s been available on streaming platforms for a while, tonight was the official launch of John Alexander’s new album, ‘Face The Wind’, a disc which finds this Scottish artist knee deep in the big muddy […]

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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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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

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When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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We all need a little rock’n’roll from time to time and this from Kyle Daniel fits the bill perfectly.  It’s from his new five track EP ‘What’s There To Say?’ and the rest of the songs […]

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Jeff Crosby “Northstar” (Independent 2020)

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Jeff Crosby had his initial break when two of his 2013 tracks landed spots on the biker series ‘Sons of Anarchy’ and this is the fifth album since then and probably represents a clear distillation of […]

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Thea Gilmore “Small World Turning” (Proper Recordings, 2019)

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The first release for a couple of years ‘Small World Turning’ represents a return to the more acoustic stylings of earlier Thea Gilmore recordings. Opening with an a cappella cover of ‘Mockingbird’ that fades into the […]

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