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Essentials: The Top 10 Digital Live Albums in 2025

December 18, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
A quirky and amusing take in our occasional Essentials series looks at the best live digital-only releases in 2025 This exciting and fun way of listening to live music recordings is a new wrinkle on the […]
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Emma Tricca announces tour dates in support of “Prisms Of Winter”

December 18, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Rome-born but London-based singer-songwriter Emma Tricca is celebrating the release of her latest album “Prisms Of Winter” with a series of dates in the UK and Ireland early 2026. “Prisms Of Winter” involved reimagining earlier songs […]
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Maggie May Treanor is the winner of Twang Factor 4

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It took a photo finish to declare Maggie May Treanor the winner by a nose over Sorrel Nation in the Twang Factor 4 contest. Coming in third by a whisker over Steve Hewitt was Hannah Crossrose. […]
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Live Review: Skinny Lister + Vandoliers + Claudia Kate, The Sugarmill Stoke-on-Trent – 11th December 2025

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The Sugarmill in Hanley, Stoke on Trent has long been a staple of the indie and rock touring circuit, ever since its conversion from a scouting hall back in the distant past, but these days tends […]
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Folk Roundup – Anna Ling, Sinéad Willox, The Haar, Winter WonderBand and a various artists collection from Stafell Sbâr Sain (Sain’s Spare Room)

December 18, 2025 Andy Short 0
It’s December, so we allow our regular folk correspondent, Jonathan Aird, time off to trim his tree, deck the halls, put on his slippers and pour a glass of mulled wine. We are spoilt again this […]

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

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Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Video: Brent Amaker and the Rodeo “Murdered in the Streets”

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Book Review: Eric Wolfson “From Elvis in Memphis” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

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Rather like the proverbial buses, another of Bloomsbury’s 331/3 books arrives soon after the recent, ‘Murder Ballads’, volume.  Whereas, ‘Murder Ballads’, was a universal tale of musical history and folklore focussing on a particular album and artist, ‘From Elvis […]

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