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Album Reviews

Brinsley Schwarz “Shouting at the Moon”

November 25, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0
Third solo release for veteran musician with tinges of southern soul and new wave. Although Brinsley Schwarz has had a rich and varied musical career spanning six decades, playing with the likes of Duck Deluxe, Graham […]
Neil Young & Chrome Hearts
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Neil Young, Kings of Leon, Lumineers headline new three day State Fayre in Essex in June 2026

November 25, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Festival Republic and Live Nation have announced State Fayre, a brand-new major weekend camping festival celebrating rock music, americana, and barbecue, taking place 26th-28th June 2026 in Chelmsford, Essex. The festival, with a capacity of around […]
Tracks

The Lowest Pair “The Uncertain Seas” – setting out without delay

November 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’ll have been getting on for four years since there last studio album when the new collection of songs “Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be” is released next January.  In advance of the release comes […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Claire Hawkins “Wants Me Back”

November 25, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the video premiere of ‘Wants Me Back’, the latest single from New York singer-songwriter Claire Hawkins. The song was written during Hawkins’ time as an Artist-in-Residence at the Odyssée Artist Residency Program in Canet-en-Roussillon, France, […]
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Features

For the Sake of the Song: Gillian Welch “Everything Is Free”

November 24, 2025 Helen Jones 2
It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early-00s when music piracy was the hot topic. At the turn of the millennium, Metallica member Lars Ulrich famously took the free file-sharing service […]

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

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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 […]
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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 […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle + Junior Brother + Sam Grassie, EartH, London – 3rd September 2026

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An Autumnal return to EartH (Experimental Arts Hackney) for a remarkable line-up in the converted cinema main hall.  Pentangle were one of the big four of British folk-rock bands alongside Fairport, Steeleye Span and the Incredible […]

  • Be Good Tanyas release 25th Anniversary vinyl edition of debut album “Blue Horse”
  • Cody Landress-Gibson “Music To Get By On”
  • Live Review: Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle + Junior Brother + Sam Grassie, EartH, London – 3rd September 2026
  • Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”
  • Hollow Hand takes Wish Road South out on the… apologies for this… road
  • Blue Twisted Steel “Turnstile Of Romance”
  • My Morning Jacket “Like A Hurricane” – take it to the bridge
  • Video Premiere: New Earth Farmers “Atmosphere”
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Don McLean, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, 4th May 2018

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To the wonderful De La Warr Pavilion in East Sussex, a fitting location to see Don McLean. Much like the Pavilion, McLean has been an icon of his age but is now remembered more for the […]
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Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes “The Road” – Listen

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You may feel that you’ve heard every song about life on the road, that there’s nothing more to hear.  Well, there are a lot of songs about the touring life but Australia’s Lachlan Bryan brings enough […]
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Simone Felice, Leaf, Manchester, 30th April 2019

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Dressed in black jeans, black shirt and a crumpled black jacket; with unkempt hair and a greying, wispy beard, Simone Felice shuffled unceremoniously on to the stage to open the first of two sets he delivered […]

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