August 2025 – Page 19

Cover art for Dan Cloutier album The Iceberg"

Dan Cloutier “The Iceberg”

August 12, 2025 Andy Short 2

An album of hope in these dark times. New England-based Dan Cloutier travelled to Greenland, not to claim the land for the United States but to record his latest album. He took in Newfoundland, too, revelling […]

Joan Shelley announces new album “Real Warmth” out in Autumn 2025

August 12, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Singer-songwriter Joan Shelley has announced that her latest record, “Real Warmth”, will be released on 19th September 2025 via No Quarter. “Real Warmth” is the follow-up to Shelley’s 2022 album “The Spur”, for which the pandemic […]

Video: Anna Tivel “White Goose”

August 12, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Anna Tivel brings a quiet intensity on her new single ‘White Goose’. An elegiac reflection on regret and longing, this is the first single from her new album “Animal Poem”, due 29th August on Fluff & […]

Interview: For Paul Spring life is short, let’s make another record

August 11, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

The world of song is made of melody, harmony, rhythm and lyrics, but one can argue that it is lyrics which extend the dimensions and expand the possibilities of this world as much as the other […]

Robert Scheffler “Truce”

August 11, 2025 Rick Thorn 0

A twenty-year wait for an adult, sometimes intimate, set of songs. “Truce” is New Yorker Sheffler’s third album; however, it is his first in almost twenty years. During that time, he worked as a freelance research […]

Video Premiere: Bronwyn “Johnny Ray” (Live) – music to rattle your bones

July 22, 2026 0

Here’s the energetic, uptempo new single from the talented fiddle-player Bronwyn. New song Johnny Ray is arranged and performed with dramatic flair. Is there a finer collection of instruments than these? Alongside Bronwyn’s fiddle and vocals, Frank Evans […]

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0

Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]

Artwork for Sailing Sones album "Slow Magic"

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

July 21, 2026 0

Absorbing collection of songs that subtly reveal the quiet joys of motherhood. The first sound that emerges from the new Sailing Stones album, Slow Magic, is the metronomic rhythm of a baby’s heartbeat with its gentle […]

Month: August 2025