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56 years after his debut, 79 year old Christy Moore announces a new album and dates

September 30, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

It’s a numbers game! There are few artists who can legitimately claim ‘living legend’ status – Christy Moore undoubtedly can but wouldn’t as modesty would forbid. His new album “A Terrible Beauty” comes out on November […]

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The Cold Stares “Mortality Blues”

September 30, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

The Cold Stares look death in the eye in their new single ‘Mortality Blues.’   A slow burn of a track centered around a rustic dobro guitar riff, the song builds but never boils over.  This is […]

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Video: Steve Louw “Cruel Hand of Fate” feat. Joe Bonamassa

September 30, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the artfully-shot new video from South African guitarist and singer-songwriter Steve Louw.  ‘Cruel Hand of Fate’ is a song of journeys and the passage of time.  Captured in both the lyrics and the video, the […]

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Something for the weekend: Christy Moore “Victor Jara”

September 27, 2024 Mark Whitfield 3

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. I have been making my way over recent months through the lovely “Poetry for the Many” anthology put together by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey. It’s […]

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Hearts of Oak “Valley of Dark Hills”

September 27, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

Pilgrims crossing a dark valley, unable to shake off the sorrow. Since bass player Aron Christenson was killed two years ago while hiking with his dog near Walput Lake in Lewis County, Oregon,  guitarist Ezra Meredith […]

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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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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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‘Hardworking Man’ is a blast of searing guitars and chugging drums.   Marcus King finds himself in some trouble in this new video.   A factory worker who gets involved in a heist with a beautiful woman only […]

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Blue Collar, East Coast, hard times. There’s little more broken than a blue-collar broken heart. Add into the mix the angry despair of East Coast punks and, well, you’ve found Gregor Barnett. Scranton punks The Menzingers […]

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Enjoy the upbeat, uplifting sounds of the new single from Sultans of String, featuring the harmonious voices of The North Sound.  The artists have great musicality and technical ability but there’s also a refreshing, infectious joy […]

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