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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Teenage Fanclub

October 1, 2025 Andrew Raw 0
Teenage Fanclub were formed in Glasgow in 1989 by guitarists Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley, drummer Francis Macdonald and bassist Gerard Love. Blake, McGinlay and Macdonald had all initially been in the same band, the Boy […]
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Nicki Bluhm “Rancho Deluxe”

October 1, 2025 Bryan Bance 0
A timeless collection of songs rooted in the here and now. Nicki Bluhm knows a thing or two about life on the road having dedicated the better part of two decades as an itinerant musician. With […]
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My View: AI for art’s sake

October 1, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything. ~ The Sound of Music  The electronic music synthesiser provides a powerful tool for the composer or musician because he can reproduce or create […]
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Bombadil “How The Moon Got Back Home”

October 1, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0
Lunar adventures sparkling with acoustic folk and harmonies. Bombadil (no relation to The Bombadils) have been making music for two decades. Several band members have come and gone, but the core has remained constant. These are […]
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Live Review: Sid Griffin, Twickfolk, Cabbage Patch, Twickenham – 21st September 2025

October 1, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0
Sid Griffin needs no introduction to these pages. Whether as co-founder of The Long Ryders, founder of The Coal Porters, solo artist, or with others and a frequently published writer, readers will know something of this […]

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Deer Tick return to their roots with “Coin-O-Matic” out in June

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Providence’s Deer Tick have announced the 5th June release of their ninth studio album, Coin-O-Matic, via ATO. The LP is said to cast a bright light on a little-known facet of the American mythos: the hidden […]
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Satellite Inn “From Nowhere Revisited”

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Italian alt-country pioneers from the earliest days of the genre return with their own take on aching melancholy. The making of their new album, From Nowhere Revisited, represents quite a journey for Satellite Inn.  Formed in […]
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Final album from the late Tucker Zimmerman will be released in June 2026

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The tragic deaths of Tucker Zimmerman and Marie-Claire, his wife of almost 60 years, in a house fire at their home near Liege, Belgium, earlier this year, occurred not long after Zimmerman’s music had been brought […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Molly Tuttle + Ole Kirkeng, Night & Day, Manchester, 11th April 2019

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Molly Tuttle has been creating quite a lot of noise recently and on tonight’s evidence she’s no empty vessel. Twenty-six year old Tuttle grew up in San Francisco and started to play the guitar when she […]
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Video: Guy Clark “Desperados Waiting For A Train”

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