January 2025 – Page 16

AMAUK announce full showcase lineup for Americana Week 2025

January 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The annual Americana Music Association UK conference is just days away – running over the 20th – 24th January at a number of Hackney venues. This is both an industry and artists get-together by day and […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 170 – Los Angeles

January 17, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

I’ve never been to Los Angeles. I’ve been to San Francisco, and it was a magical place when I visited in 2014 for my fiftieth. I wandered Haight Asbury, went to Ameoba Records, explored the Castro […]

Ella Spencer “Warning Signs” – always come too late

January 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Warning Signs‘ is a slow but dramatic song from Ella Spencer – it’s a song for which the word foreboding was created. Something bad has happened, and maybe there’s worse to come – as Ella notes […]

Video Premiere: Jennifer Greer “Tidal Wave”

January 17, 2025 Andrew Frolish 2

Here’s the intimate and dramatic new single from New York’s Jennifer Greer. Greer’s creative endeavours were initially around poetry and she won the National Collegiate Poetry Award in her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College in […]

Interview: James Mastro on Richard Lloyd, Ian Hunter, Richard Barone, to name a few

January 16, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

If James Mastro has health and happiness, he’s a rich man. His Facebook blurb states “I write songs and sing them if I have to. Guitarist, producer, and fake a host of other instruments. A sordid […]

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0

“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio “Welcome to the Family”

July 28, 2026 0

The new release by The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio arrives with lively words of welcome. After three solo releases of his own, in 2019 Mike Jacoby teamed up with Don Read and Mike Levin to form […]

More People Really Should Know About: Hayden

July 28, 2026 0

When we say more people should know about Hayden, I’m not talking about the beloved 18th-century composer and founder of Viennese Classicism, but about Paul Hayden Desser, the Canadian singer-songwriter who has been quietly ploughing his […]

Month: January 2025

AMAUK announce full showcase lineup for Americana Week 2025

Sounds from beyond the Shed 170 – Los Angeles

Ella Spencer “Warning Signs” – always come too late

Video Premiere: Jennifer Greer “Tidal Wave”

Interview: James Mastro on Richard Lloyd, Ian Hunter, Richard Barone, to name a few

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio “Welcome to the Family”

More People Really Should Know About: Hayden

Various Artists “Just Look Inside the Cover – Songs of Pete Ham”

Willie J Healey to release new EP before October tour dates