November 2025 – Page 25

The Dreaming Spires “Normal Town”

November 11, 2025 Jonny Brick 2

Pretty melodies and bleak landscapes combine on this grounded album. “It’s my home, I suppose,” sings Robin Bennett on the title track, which opens the third Dreaming Spires album. It’s about Didcot, the in-between town in […]

Paul Thompson “The Clocks Went Back” – spring forward, fall back

November 11, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

We admit we’re late with this song, but that was inevitable really because, even with the gained hour of the end of British Summertime we were never going to be around for the posting date, which […]

Video: Elliot C Way “Fool’s Gold”

November 11, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the outstanding outlaw sound of ‘Fool’s Gold’, the latest single from Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Elliot C. Way, just released via North Country Collective. The song is driven along by a pulsing rhythm and twanging, authentically […]

Interview: Liz Thomson on Greenwich Village, Joan Baez and the young Dylan

November 10, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

The last year has seen Bob Dylan take the media by storm, something that started with the success of “A Complete Unknown”, a biopic that covered his career between 1961-1965, which was a critical and commercial […]

Live Review: Patterson Hood, The Union Chapel, Islington, London – 27th October 2025

November 10, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 1

On the Union Chapel’s stage are a wooden chair, an acoustic guitar and an upright piano. At 8.15 pm, the amiable Patterson Hood ambles on stage and sits on the chair. He’s followed by his Drive […]

Video: Joe Rian “New Day” – last on the totem pole in the tribe

September 16, 2026 0

The latest video from Chicago-based alt-country rocker Joe Rian is an absolutely delightful hand-drawn animation. The self-created visual was painstakingly put together by Rian himself, a triumph of perseverance and personal creativity over the AI-generated material […]

Be Good Tanyas release 25th Anniversary vinyl edition of debut album “Blue Horse”

September 15, 2026 0

Twenty-five years after The Be Good Tanyas introduced their singular take on folk music to the world, the celebrated Vancouver group has announced a special 25th anniversary edition of their debut album, Blue Horse, arriving November […]

artwork for Cody Landress-Gibson album - Music to Get By On

Cody Landress-Gibson “Music To Get By On”

September 15, 2026 0

From punk to pedal steel, the Chattanooga storyteller lays bare the challenges of a tough year. This is a short, impactful record. Cody Landress-Gibson cuts to the chase and burrows into our hearts. His gut-twisting lyrics […]

Month: November 2025