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Sounds from beyond the Shed 170 – Los Angeles

January 17, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

I’ve never been to Los Angeles. I’ve been to San Francisco, and it was a magical place when I visited in 2014 for my fiftieth. I wandered Haight Asbury, went to Ameoba Records, explored the Castro […]

Ella Spencer “Warning Signs” – always come too late

January 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Warning Signs‘ is a slow but dramatic song from Ella Spencer – it’s a song for which the word foreboding was created. Something bad has happened, and maybe there’s worse to come – as Ella notes […]

Video Premiere: Jennifer Greer “Tidal Wave”

January 17, 2025 Andrew Frolish 2

Here’s the intimate and dramatic new single from New York’s Jennifer Greer. Greer’s creative endeavours were initially around poetry and she won the National Collegiate Poetry Award in her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College in […]

Interview: James Mastro on Richard Lloyd, Ian Hunter, Richard Barone, to name a few

January 16, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

If James Mastro has health and happiness, he’s a rich man. His Facebook blurb states “I write songs and sing them if I have to. Guitarist, producer, and fake a host of other instruments. A sordid […]

Pigeon Pit “Crazy Arms”

January 16, 2025 Guy Lincoln 0

Frantic and fiery folk-punk tubthumping – with nuance. “Crazy Arms” is the 4th (or 5th) full-length release for Olympia, WA band Pigeon Pit. It is their first since coalescing as a fully-fledged 6-piece band with sights […]