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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Gene Clark

October 29, 2025 Graeme Tait 16
With this popular feature now well into its second year, I find myself challenged to make my fourth contribution. Having initially played safe with my first choice, Stephen Stills, I got rather bold with my second, […]
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Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors – casting a spell on you

October 29, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
My, my… aren’t you the persistent one? Come in, come in… I’m afraid we’re going to have to ask you to stand… the chairs are not quite what they should be today… Bad chair. No, no, […]
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Sam Burchfield’s “Nature Speaks”

October 29, 2025 Ally Spence 0
A soulful journey rooted in the Land. Sam Burchfield’s music rises from the foothills of South Carolina near the Blue Ridge Mountains, where the landscapes shaped his sound and spirit. Now based in North Georgia, he […]
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Live Review: Courtney Marie Andrews + Charlie Jonas Walter, St Mary’s Church – Twyford, Hampshire – 23rd October 2025

October 29, 2025 NickBarber 0
It’s been two long years since Courtney Marie Andrews graced these shores, so it was perhaps unsurprising that her autumn 2025 run of smaller, but characterful venues sold out in short time. The first date of […]
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Boy & Bear trip in time with new record and late winter 2026 tour dates

October 29, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
The Sydney, Australia band Boy & Bear have announced the release of their new studio album “Tripping Over Time”, on 12th December 2025 via V2 Records. The songs for the new record were recorded live and, […]

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The title of this piece is “More People Really Should Know About“, but I’d wager that more people have come across Demi Marriner and her work than realise, so perhaps the piece should be entitled More […]
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Psychedelic rock supergroup continues to impress with a four-song EP companion piece to last year’s critically acclaimed album. There are very few musical collaborations doing the rounds these days as talented as The Third Mind. Formed […]
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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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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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